Anna Yearley is the Joint Executive Director of Reprieve and co-manages all aspects of Reprieve’s work. In 2021, she was awarded an OBE for services…
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The Sigrid Rausing Trust has been supporting the legal advocacy group Reprieve for many years. Among many other cases around the world, Reprieve has…
In a medical first, there has been a promising breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. A rigorous clinical trial involving 1,795 volunteers with early…
Initiatives by two SRT grantees, the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) and CAMP Alatoo, have been recognised as UN…
TRIAL International works to combat impunity for international crimes, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since its creation in 2002,…
The Center for Civil and Human Rights, known as Poradňa, addresses gender and racial discrimination and reproductive rights violations…
In June 2021, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicted Alieu Kosiah, a former Liberian warlord and former battalion commander of the ULIMO (United Liberation Movement…
Founded in 1997, the GALA Queer Archive is a catalyst for the production, preservation and dissemination of information about the history, culture and…
In late June 2021, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), an SRT grantee since 2014, earned two major victories in the…
In June 2021, Tamir Yadai, the chief of the Central Command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), announced that the IDF would limit its “intelligence…
On 29 April 2021, the Supreme Court in Malawi ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional in the country. This landmark judgment paves the way…
Trust grantee FemFund is the first and only feminist grant-maker in Poland promoting feminist activism with small institutional grants. FemFund has been a…
On 14 April 2021, Granta-published author Ahmet Altan walked free after four and half years in prison in Turkey. The Supreme Court of Appeals quashed…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruled in February 2021 in favour of a case that challenged the criminalisation of homosexual people in Jamaica, in…