Victims represented by SRT grantee partner Civitas Maxima welcomed the fact that the Paris ‘Cour d’assises’ found a convicted Liberian rebel commander guilty after…
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A review conducted by CHEM Trust has found significant shortcomings in the UK’s post-Brexit chemical regulatory system, known as UK REACH. Despite government assurances…
SRT grantee partner the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) has welcomed a political agreement made by EU legislators on the Corporate Sustainability Due…
On December 11, 2023, conservationists celebrated as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reclassified the saiga antelope, a keystone species of the Central…
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…
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…