Grantee News Direkt36 journalist Szabolcs Panyi has been charged with espionage in Hungary following his reporting on alleged links between senior officials and Russia,…
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Grantee news Bellingcat has published an investigation documenting how Russia’s war has devastated civilian life in Ukraine, verifying over 2,500 cases of civilian harm,…
Media Defence and Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova secured a landmark ruling for press freedom at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The…
Grantee News MSF is one of over 30 NGOs banned by Israel from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank. This follows a threat to withhold registration…
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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…