In 2011, he co-founded the Human Dignity Trust, a UK-based charity that focuses on strategic litigation against the criminalization of homosexuality worldwide, and served as its director until 2016.
[4][2] The cases he worked on included LGBT people and military service, the treatment of asylum seekers in Greece, and Belarusian pro-democracy activists.
[2] He received tributes from Kennedy, Geoffrey Robertson,[2] Peter Tatchell, Jayne Ozanne, Nancy Kelley, Michael Cashman,[4] and Philippe Sands.
[8] The European Human Rights Law Review published a special issue dedicated to his life's work in February 2022.
It was made possible by a £4.9 million gift from Professor Peter Baldwin and Dr Lisbet Rausing, historians and Co-Founders of the Arcadia Fund.