Grantee News Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is among groups urging lawmakers in Kazakhstan to reject a draft law with amendments that would ban…
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When apartheid South Africa used banning orders and house arrest to silence dissent, it didn’t only restrict political speech, it fractured lives, families, careers and…
Two SRT grantee partners were represented at a recent roundtable with former US President Barack Obama on the future of democracy in Central Europe and…
Grantee News: TV8, an independent Moldovan media outlet, was both the country’s most watched TV channel and most accessed news website on parliamentary election…
13th May 2014: the International Criminal Court in The Hague has decided to reopen preliminary investigations into the liability of British military officials for the…
21st April 2014: the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit has rejected the US government’s claim that it cannot release information about its so-called…
15 April 2014: The European Parliament has adopted new legislation requiring companies to disclose the steps they take to prevent damage to human rights and…
11 April 2014: the Prosecutor of the Paris Court has today announced its decision to open a judicial investigation into French ICT firm Qosmos for…
18th March 2014: In an important legal victory in Botswana, the country’s High Court has ordered the government to provide HIV treatment to all non-citizen…
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.