Latest Impact Stories
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Impact Story
TrustLaw helps secure milestone victory for EU whistleblower protection
Blueprint for Free Speech has been working in the EU community to raise the standard of whistleblower protection legislation at both a country and pan-European level. In 2018, Blueprint contacted TrustLaw for pro bono legal support to better inform the push for an EU Directive (an EU wide form of legislation) which they believed could provide a more comprehensive and universal standard of protection for whistleblowers. TrustLaw connected Blueprint with global law firm Dechert LLP to draft a memorandum on the legal process for creating EU directive.
25 June 2019 -
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Fighting Acid Attacks in the UK
TrustLaw connected Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) with Linklaters to produce a legal research report which is being used as a powerful tool to influence policy change in the UK.
27 March 2019 -
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Thomson Reuters Foundation and The Mekong Club launch resource for financial institutions in Asia Pacific to combat modern slavery
Financial institutions, NGOs and law enforcement in Asia Pacific join forces against modern slavery.
12 February 2019 -
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TrustLaw Hits 5,000 Members
In eight years, TrustLaw - our network of top law firms, in-house legal teams from some of the best-known brands on the planet, high-impact NGOs and innovative social enterprises has grown to over 5,000 members.
30 January 2019
Latest Press Releases
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Thomson Reuters Foundation and University of Lincoln Announce New Master’s Degree in International Journalism
The University of Lincoln, UK, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation have announced the creation of a unique new Master’s degree course, starting this September*. The MA International Journalism course is an innovative new partnership designed to equip new generations of journalists to report impartially on critical global issues facing society today.
3 May 2019 -
Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded £400,000 from People’s Postcode Lottery
People's Postcode Lottery awarded the Thomson Reuters Foundation funding to expand its editorial team’s coverage of under-reported stories on modern slavery, access to land and property rights and LGBT+ issues.
1 May 2019 -
Statement from Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO Monique Villa to mark the three-year anniversary of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment
It is so sad to have to mark the third anniversary of Nazanin’s brutal arrest in Tehran and her imprisonment. The treatment imposed by the Iranian authorities on our innocent colleague is nothing less than torture, psychological and physical. It has to cease.
2 April 2019 -
Land and property rights news platform receives renewed funding from Omidyar Network
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charity arm of the world’s largest news and information provider, announced today the renewal of a three-year funding commitment from Omidyar Network for PLACE, the innovative news platform dedicated to coverage of the under-reported issue of land and property rights launched in 2016.
11 March 2019
