Grantee news: Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) has been named one of four recipients of the 2026 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as…
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Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…
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…
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Belgrade, 6 July 2015: Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has met with representatives of the RECOM Coalition, an initiative advocating the establishment of an…
23rd June 2015: In its judgment in the case of Sargsyan v Azerbaijan, the European Court has found that Azerbaijan violated the property rights of…
Dublin, 3rd June 2015: the Irish Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, TD, has announced that transgender people in the Republic of Ireland will no…
27th May 2015– The Administrative Court of Cologne has dismissed the claim brought against the German government by three Yemeni citizens concerning the use of…
Bogota, 14th May 2015: the Colombian Minister of Justice and Chair of the Council of Narcotics, Yesid Alvarado Reyes, has announced the Council’s decision to…
Geneva, 12th May 2015: Former Guatemalan Police Chief Erwin Sperisen has been found guilty by the Geneva Court of Appeal of ten extrajudicial killings and…
On 31st March 2015, Israel’s Ministry of Interior announced that it will begin jailing asylum seekers who refuse to leave Israel for a “third” country…
16th February 2015: The Civil Court in Rome has found the Italian publishing house Gruppo Editoriale Simone guilty of discrimination against Roma and Sinti people…
10th March 2015: The US Supreme Court has upheld a ruling awarding four men of Somali origin $21 million in damages for torture, war crimes,…
2nd April 2015: The UN Human Rights Committee has for the first time told Russia to take into account homophobia or transphobia as a motive…