Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…
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Grantee News: The Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) has welcomed new legislation that has come into force simplifying residency procedures for…
Grantee News: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Háttér Society, and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, along with Amnesty International Hungary, have secured a major…
Grantee News HOPE not Hate continues to uncover racist and extremist rhetoric linked to Reform UK candidates and councillors following the UK’s local elections.
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17th May 2016, Abuja, Nigeria: A “Frivolous Petitions Bill” aimed at preventing citizens from posting on social media has been withdrawn by the Nigerian Senate…
8th May, 2016: Lebanon has begun its first round of municipal elections as thousands cast their votes in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and Baalbek-Hermel. This…
The trial of former Chadian President Hissène Habré, accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture, began in July 2015 before the Extraordinary African…
2nd May 2016, New York: Needlecraft, a short animated film on female genital mutilation (FGM), has won the Gold World Medal at the 2016 New…
Israel, March 2016: SRT grantee Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) has released a new report, ‘Politics of Punishment’, which analyses the use of solitary…
Belgrade, Serbia, April 2016: The First Basic Court in Belgrade has delivered a judgment obliging the Republic of Serbia to pay compensation totalling 25.9 million…
Washington, DC, April 3rd, 2016: The “Panama Papers” are an unprecedented leaked cache of 11.5 million financial records from the database of the world’s fourth…
On 5th November 2015 a tailings dam, holding waste from an iron ore mine, burst flooding the village of Bento Rodrigues in the state of…
Egypt, March 2016: A five-year investigation into the funding and registration of independent human rights groups in Egypt has gathered pace in recent months, with…
9th March 2016: In a landmark ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered the Ethiopian government to pay $150,000 compensation in…