David Tišer, founder of SRT partner ARA ART, was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship in 2023 for his work combating discrimination against Roma people, particularly…
Grantee stories
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In a significant legal action, twenty-five families and survivors of apartheid-era political crimes have filed a lawsuit against the South African government seeking constitutional damages…
Over the past decade, SRT grantee partner the End FGM European Network (End FGM EU), has emerged as a pivotal force in combating female…
New analysis from The Forever Pollution Project has exposed the dire environmental, health and financial implications posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or…
4th July 2014: Financial police have raided the headquarters of Italy’s largest company, the oil giant Eni, as part of a new investigation into its…
Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist and President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights,…
19th June 2014: the Muslim Council of Britain, in conjunction with SRT grantee FORWARD and the Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS, has for the…
21st June 2014: Ales Bialiatski, a prominent human rights defender who is President of Viasna Human Rights Centre of Belarus and Vice President of SRT…
6th June 2014: The Criminal Court in Geneva today sentenced former Guatemalan Chief of Police Erwin Sperisen to life in prison for seven extrajudicial executions…
23rd May 2014: A federal court judge today ordered the US government to produce 34 videotapes showing Guantanamo prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab being forcibly dragged…
22nd May 2014: African civil society organisations and human rights defenders have welcomed the adoption by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights of…
On 30th April 2014, the Mexican Congress approved amendments to the Military Code of Justice, establishing for the first time restrictions on the use of…
SRT grantee the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) has strongly condemned the decision by a Sudanese court to sentence Meriam Ibrahim,…
9th May 2014: The Caribbean Court of Justice has allowed the case of Maurice Tomlinson v. The State of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago to…