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…
Geneva, 26th July 2016: A coalition of Burundian NGOs, with the support of SRT grantees TRIAL International and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) along with three…
21st June 2016: the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to 18…
11th July 2016: the Israeli Knesset has voted 57-48 to approve a controversial bill requiring non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to publicly report if they receive more…
10th July 2015: SRT grantee Physicians for Human Rights today called for a criminal investigation into the American Psychological Association’s (APA) role in the torture of…
11th July 2016: SRT grantee the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and pro bono co-counsel Shearman & Sterling LLP have filed a lawsuit in a…
On 18th June 2016 the Economist published an article titled Female Genital Mutilation: An Agonising Choice, which advocated lifting the blanket ban on FGM in…
Orlando, 27th June 2016: a jury has found Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nunez liable for the torture and murder of the Chilean musician Víctor Jara, who…
23rd June 2016, Israel: Sudanese national Mutasim Ali has finally been awarded refugee status, seven years after entering Israel, four years after submitting his asylum…
Rachel Krys, co-director of SRT grantee End Violence Against Women Coalition, has written an opinion piece in Newsweek on the Stanford rape case that saw…
20th June 2016, Istanbul, Turkey: Authorities have arrested well known free speech advocate Erol Önderoglu, alongside head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Sebnem…