Switzerland’s courts have seen recent successes involving cases based on universal jurisdiction, helped in part by current and former SRT grantee partners, including TRIAL…
Grantee stories
Highlighted stories from across our programmes
Our grantee partner EQUITAS, founded in 2004 in Colombia, aims to bring forensic expertise to the investigation of gross human rights violations. A key part…
Victoria Amelina was an award-winning Ukrainian novelist, poet and a children’s book author. After Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022, she also undertook training to…
Julienne Lusenge, a Congolese human rights activist, and founder and Chair of the Board of SRT grantee SOFEPADI, has been named as one of…
On 10th January 2014 SRT grantee the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), together with Birmingham-based law firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), delivered a…
27th January 2014: The parliament of Northern Cyprus has voted to repeal a law dating from the British colonial period which criminalises gay sex between…
Strasbourg, 2nd December 2013 – The first-ever Council of Europe Raoul Wallenberg Prize has been awarded to Elmas Arus, a Roma film director from Turkey.
19th November 2013: Shaker Aamer, the last British resident of Guantánamo Bay, has spoken publicly for the first time as part of a recording made…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found in favour of Leopoldo García Lucero, an ally of Salvador Allende who was subjected to enforced disappearance,…
Amira Osman, a Sudanese engineer and women’s rights activist, has been assaulted and detained by ‘Public Order police’ in Khartoum after refusing to cover her…