We fund post-graduate and re-qualification studies to allow prisoners of conscience to recommence their work and thereby become self-sufficient and to be able to add back to society.
In 2018 we gave ten Bursary grants totalling over £63,000.
Today we applaud
everyone who supports human rights – particularly our Big Give Christmas Challenge supporters who have helped us raise over £30,000
Yusuf is a human rights lawyer from a Kurdish city in south-eastern Turkey. He has recently been able to requalify as a human rights lawyer in the UK, thanks to a bursary grant from Prisoners of Conscience. Growing up in a Kurdish city in Turkey isn’t easy. The ethnic Kurdish Read more…
When Victoria left Zimbabwe to visit the UK in 2010, she never thought that she wouldn’t be able to return home. But that is exactly the situation she found herself in. This is the story of what happened and how she has rebuilt her life with support of Prisoners of Conscience.
Prisoners of Conscience teams up with the Big Give Christmas Challenge to double the impact of donations made between 3 and 10 December
Prisoners of Conscience has celebrated the latest round of bursary grantees at a special ceremony in London.
When threats against you and your family force you to flee your home in search of safety, it can be hard to readjust – and even harder to find meaningful employment, as Sobia from Pakistan was to discover. But thanks to Prisoners of Conscience and our bursary grants scheme, she was able to turn her life around
What first motivated Esin to escape the comfort of her teaching career in Turkey and become politically active was the growing sense that widespread injustice was corroding her country: “I witnessed severe human rights abuse in Turkey for many years” she told Prisoners of Conscience, but “the mistreatment of ethnic Read more…
Kevin, a politically active journalist from Cameroon, sought refuge in the UK after being constantly targeted by government authorities for his work. He was arrested, detained and tortured numerous times for exposing and criticising the government. Being a member of a non-violent, self-determination organisation advocating for the independence of the Read more…
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In Sudan, objecting to government decisions can be dangerous, as Kamil, a teaching assistant at the University of Khartoum, was to discover. After protesting on behalf of suspended students, he was persecuted and tortured by the Sudanese Security Authority. In April 2016, after a decision by the Sudanese government to sell part of Read more…
Anya, a Kurdish lawyer, human rights activist, and single mother from Turkey, has been subjected to ethnic persecution for as long as she can remember. At the age of 14, she became involved with a political party that promoted cultural and political rights of all Kurds. It was that same Read more…