Five Italian activists from civil society organizations were arrested yesterday by police in Ninzhny Novogorod, Russia, as they took part in an exchange project on the role of civil society.
A welcoming country for decades, Italy is now home to 5 million foreigners. But the government's welcome doesn't include citizenship for their children, even if they are born in the country.
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Heated debate has broken out across Italy about the sentence of Salvatore Riina, possibly the most notorious mafia boss alive, whose health suggests that house arrest would be a more just form of detention.
The situation of refugees is not just the political issue that the general public has come to know - it is and always will be a human issue. To celebrate World Refugee Day, Italy is holding a series of eye-opening events across the country.
Assistance in the voting booth for persons with a physical disability should be improved, the organization says, and the ballot should be redesigned to aid those with a visual impairment.
Families should be for everyone, not only for couples made up of a man and a woman. 100 civil society organizations and citizens of Romania want to stop a referendum aimed at further restricting the constitutional definition of "family."
At present, an individual is not allowed to petition the Constitutional Court to hear their case, but the Parliament is currently discussing draft laws that would change this.
Accused by public figures and media outlets of colluding with human traffickers, NGOs operating in the Mediterranean are now forced to justify what they do.
The widely criticised Hungarian law on NGO financing was passed by the parliament on Tuesday. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union denounces the unlawful NGO Act and calls for civil disobedience against it!
The Czech Republic is one of the last EU countries that does not have a children's ombudsman, meaning there is no institution to oversee the protection and enforcement of children's rights in the country.
Meet the winners of the Diversity Media Awards 2017! The event, known as the "Italian LGBTI Oscars," awards media outlets that celebrate diversity in their work.
This is the very question the Regional Court in Warsaw needs to answer in deciding a personal interests protection action brought by district court judge Justyna Koska-Janusz against the minister of justice.
A new bill currently under consideration in Parliament includes regulations on government-sponsored hacking, but watchdogs say the language needs changing to protect citizens' right to privacy.
In a recently published report, the UN special rapporteur on privacy criticizes the US and other countries for snooping on citizens' data with the deceitful excuse of increasing security.
The monitoring report on facilities for migrants by the newly created Italian prisons ombudsman has been released, highlighting the flaws and issues of a system that is far from perfect.
The trial of the "six heroes" will begin on May 31 in Brussels. The six, passengers on a recent flight to Africa, are being prosecuted for speaking up to oppose police violence against a man being forcibly returned to Cameroon.
At least 30 cases have been recorded so far this year where a foreigner's application for asylum or humanitarian protection status in Croatia was denied for unsubstantiated security reasons.
A Polish court has found in favor of a refugee from Chechnya whose rights were violated upon attempting to enter Poland under international humanitarian protection.
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