SRT grantees Liberty and UNJUST are celebrating after a legal challenge they brought forced the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service to agree to overhaul…
Grantee stories
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A Ukrainian human rights activist and journalist Maksym Butkevych, who is currently being held by Russia as a prisoner of war, has received the ‘Stories…
Our grantee Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) has carried out a cross-border investigation, along with the Washington Post, NBC News Investigations…
Kunti Kamara, a former Liberian rebel commander has been sentenced to life imprisonment, during a ground-breaking trial that was brought by our grantee Civitas Maxima.
On 30th April 2014, the Mexican Congress approved amendments to the Military Code of Justice, establishing for the first time restrictions on the use of…
SRT grantee the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) has strongly condemned the decision by a Sudanese court to sentence Meriam Ibrahim,…
9th May 2014: The Caribbean Court of Justice has allowed the case of Maurice Tomlinson v. The State of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago to…
13th May 2014: the International Criminal Court in The Hague has decided to reopen preliminary investigations into the liability of British military officials for the…
21st April 2014: the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit has rejected the US government’s claim that it cannot release information about its so-called…
15 April 2014: The European Parliament has adopted new legislation requiring companies to disclose the steps they take to prevent damage to human rights and…
11 April 2014: the Prosecutor of the Paris Court has today announced its decision to open a judicial investigation into French ICT firm Qosmos for…
18th March 2014: In an important legal victory in Botswana, the country’s High Court has ordered the government to provide HIV treatment to all non-citizen…
2nd April 2014: Women’s rights groups in Mexico, including SRT grantee the Reproductive Information Group (GIRE), have appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to…
9th March 2014: With the help of SRT grantee the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF), the government of Somaliland has reburied 45 victims from Somalia’s ethnic…