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…
Grantee stories
Highlighted stories from across our programmes
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…
In a landmark ruling, the High Court of Saint Lucia has struck down sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code, colonial-era laws that criminalised…
For over 30 years, the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) has supported refugees and migrants in the Czech Republic. It is the country’s oldest…
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…