The letter, from privacy groups and citizens, asks him to join the public debate over Facebook’s protection of personal data.

Great inequality exists in the way youth care is implemented. At the start of 2015, youth care was shifted from the provinces to the local authorities who, Children's Ombudsman Marc Dullaert says, address the aid...

So far 222 assaults at refugee shelters were registered in Germany for 2015. Their aim was to destroy the shelters or to injure people. There has been a strong rise in the number of assaults from January to November,...

Since the Paris attacks, fear driven by terror and migration has made Europeans prioritize security over the rule of law. But in our efforts to strengthen security, we must not give up on our own freedoms.

Macedonian police used tear gas on hundreds of refugees, most of them from Pakistan, who tried to enter Macedonia from Greece last week.

New asylum laws have been in force in Germany since the end of October. The new regulations should help speed up the asylum process, but serious human rights issues, including overcrowding in temporary shelters, persist.

The president's veto of the draft law on gender recognition sent the bill back to the legislature for an override vote, but this never took place.

New law on in vitro fertilization came into force in Poland last month. This is the first regulation introducing standards in this area. However, according to the ombudsman and the Helsinki Foundation for Human...

The Istanbul Convention, which will come into force in the Netherlands in 2016, aims to strengthen efforts to combat violence against women and domestic violence.

Ahmed Aboutaleb, the mayor of Rotterdam, says he is upset about the Paris attacks as a democrat, a Muslim and a Moroccan. "There is a lot of confusion going on in my head. In my body, grief and anger fight with each...