New research sheds light on the situation of foreigners in Rome and its surrounding region, revealing Italy's capital to be a place of great pluralism and multiculturalism.
The Italian Parliament has decided against approving a new citizenship law based on jus soli, claiming there weren't the necessary votes to pass it. Now there's real risk that it will never be passed.
A court in the Bulgarian capital has ruled the head of a church's religious studies group is guilty of incitement to discrimination against a spiritual group that focuses on yoga and meditation.
A new report highlights the overall situation of civil society and the issues it is facing due to the worldwide rise of populism. It calls for more cooperation and networking among civil rights organizations.
CILD has created Know Your Rights - Solidarity at Sea, an easily accessible guide to contrast the media's smear campaign against NGOs involved in migrant search and rescue operations.
Rights International Spain has raised its concerns with the UN experts on privacy and judicial independence over a failure in the Ministry of Justice's electronic communications system that could have allowed any user to access any judicial file.
The Polish government has been largely impervious to EU legal and political pressure. But cutting off EU funding is likely to be more persuasive and the Commission has clear legal grounds to do so.
The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary is greatly dismayed to learn that both houses of the Polish Parliament last week approved judicial reforms in Poland.
The Civil Liberties Union for Europe – Liberties – is a unique organization that will help unify society at a time when it desperately needs to come together around shared values.
If the bill becomes law, organizations for magistrates, prosecutors and investigators would no longer be allowed to accept funding from foreign citizens or entities.
A recent ECtHR judgment that found Lithuania to have violated the rights of life prisoners could become a powerful incentive to reform the prison system.
Freedom of speech is necessary to hold governments to account, but it is under threat in Europe. Here’s why this right is so important, and what Liberties is doing to protect it.
Following the Strasbourg court's condemnation of Russia's "propaganda law," a representative of the European Parliament urged the European Commission to review analogous regulations in Lithuania.
We constantly share information and leave traces of ourselves online. And while the benefits are unquestionable, so too are the risks. Here's what Liberties is doing to improve the protection of our privacy.
We must put public health at the center of drug policy and abandon the idea that criminalization is the answer, says former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss.
The export of surveillance equipment is becoming big business for Italian and international companies - business that puts activists and journalists working under authoritarian regimes in harm's way.
The City Council has published its road map to avoid the detention of migrants, and to protect the human rights of detainees in cases where detention can't be avoided.
Pro Bono Connect, New Dutch Connections, the NJCM, the Leiden Law Clinic and DLA Piper launched the Know Your Rights project; a project aimed at empowering young asylum seekers by introducing them into various legal topics.
CILD and other civil society organizations have asked the Council of Europe for a fundamentally different approach to immigration detention: one that puts human rights first.
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