SRT grantee partner the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has been awarded the Paul Weis Prize, in recognition of its work in supporting asylum-seekers, promoting…
Grantee stories
Highlighted stories from across our programmes
In October 2024, SRT grantee The Moroccan Biodiversity and Livelihoods Association, (MBLA) was a recipient of the United Nation Development Programme’s 2024 Equator Prize.
Last month, SRT grantee the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) in Serbia was one of two groups honoured with the Aachen Peace Prize. The…
SRT has granted a further £5 million gift to The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology for the Neurogenetic Therapies Programme (NgTP), where researchers are…
This gift will fund a Neurogenetic Therapies Programme to build on advances in understanding the genetic basis of neurodegenerative diseases, significantly speeding up their translation…
On May 21, 2019, the Istanbul 25th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Sabancı University professor Ayşe Gül Altınay to two years and one month imprisonment on…
On 14th March, Medical Justice was granted permission for a judicial review of the Removal Notice Window, a removals policy enforced by the Home Office under…
In early April 2019, Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, pardoned 367 women convicted for “pregnancy-related crimes.” Among them was Valentine, whose case had been accompanied…
On 22 March 2019, Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled that the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) should be allowed to officially register…
On 11th March, the hallway leading to the offices of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia (grantee since 2018, current grant £75,000 over one…
On 22 February 2012, war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed when the media centre from where she was reporting in Homs, came under rocket attack.
On February 27th, 10 human rights organisations, including the Truth Justice Memory Center, made a joint press statement in response to the recent allegations levelled…
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei was granted refugee status in the UK in 2012 in recognition of the dangers he faced in Bahrain because of his work…
The Sigrid Rausing Trust has awarded a gift of £15 million over three years to the Royal College of Art. The one-off gift will enable…