The Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, led by SRT grantee partner The Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan, (ACBK), has won the…
Grantee stories
Highlighted stories from across our programmes
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…
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…
6th September 2016: The Supreme Court of Appeal (confirming an order of the North Gauteng High Court) has confirmed the right to South African citizenship…
22nd September 2016: At least 1,000 Syrian refugees who have been granted resettlement to third countries are being denied exit permits by the Turkish government…
13th September 2016: The Zimbabwe Constitutional Court has declared life sentences without the possibility of parole to be both cruel and inhuman punishment and a…
8th September 2016: Brandon Bryant, Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland, all of whom have worked on the Obama Administration’s drone programme, have filed a legal…
4th September 2016: The UK Home Office has today announced that it is committing £10 million in new funding towards English language classes for Syrian…
Toronto, August 25th 2016: SRT grantee Citizen Lab, together with US-based mobile security firm Lookout Security, has uncovered a sophisticated cyber-attack targeting human rights defender…
19th August 2016: Amnesty International has today released a report titled ‘It breaks the human’: Torture, Disease and Death in Syria’s Prisons, which details the…
17th August 2016: A four-year academic research project has found that global torture prevention measures, such as the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against…
11th August 2016: A law in Belize that disproportionately affects gay men was ruled unconstitutional yesterday by the country’s Supreme Court. Section 53 of Belize’s…
11th August 2016: SRT grantee Al Mezan has today released the following statement: “Staff members of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan) have been…