A review conducted by CHEM Trust has found significant shortcomings in the UK’s post-Brexit chemical regulatory system, known as UK REACH. Despite government assurances…
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SRT grantee partner the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) has welcomed a political agreement made by EU legislators on the Corporate Sustainability Due…
On December 11, 2023, conservationists celebrated as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reclassified the saiga antelope, a keystone species of the Central…
On 15 November 2023, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the government’s Rwanda scheme is unlawful. Under this proposed scheme, people who are deemed…
Johannesburg, 8 February 2016: after 33 years, the South Africa National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has announced that it will charge four former security policemen with…
Peru, December 2015: Nearly a decade after the original complaint was filed with the UN Human Rights Committee, the Peruvian government has agreed to pay…
North Carolina, 5th February 2016: Magistrate Judge Kimberly Swank has today approved the extradition to Spain of Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, El Salvador’s former Vice…
In June 2015, more than 80 funders, civil society actors, and government representatives met in Berlin to discuss the closing space for civil society in…
Kenya, 18th December 2015: In 2014, SRT grantee Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK) went to court seeking orders to declare the separation of refugee children from…
Spain, October 2015: SRT grantee Women’s Link Worldwide filed a lawsuit in June 2015 on behalf of a lesbian couple for damages incurred when the couple’s…
Sarajevo, 24th June 2015: The Bosnian war crimes court has issued two landmark rulings ordering compensation to wartime rape victims and sentencing former Bosnian Serb…
Geneva, 26th June 2015: A group of UN bodies responsible for monitoring human rights has adopted a policy to combat intimidation and reprisals, known as…
21st July 2015: The Court in Haiti has found former mayor of the small town of Les Irois, Jean Morose Viliena, guilty of violent crimes…
Dublin, 15th July 2015: The Gender Recognition Bill has today completed passage through the Oireachtas and is expected to come into operation before the end…