Public libraries can be much more than repositories of records and knowledge. In Nairobi, SRT grantee Book Bunk is working with local artists…
Grantee stories
In 2007, the Guinean government became the first in sub-Saharan Africa to switch off the internet during protests against former president Lansana Conté.
Romania’s mountainous regions, which are rich with gold, have drawn international investors and mining companies for decades. The methods and processes by which…
Diyan Dankov believes that access to justice is a fundamental human right. It is the reason he wanted to become a lawyer; he…
On 21 July 2021, Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining giant, committed to funding an independent assessment of ongoing environmental damage caused by one of their…
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…
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), a Trust grantee, has been nominated alongside its partner Mwatana for Human Rights, a grassroots organisation in Yemen, for the…
In early February 2021 at the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium, “Global Speech Under Pressure: The Promise and Challenges of Free Expression and Digital Rights” organised…
Within days of his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, President Biden signed an Executive Order reversing two of former President Trump’s…
On 21st October 2020, the Court of Appeal decided unanimously to quash the Judicial Review and Injunctions (JRI) policy which enabled the forcible removal of…