Czech Roma children are still grouped into schools for the mentally disabled, despite a Court of Human Rights ruling from seven years ago that declared the practice illegal.

The UN Human Rights Committee has just published a list of issues Spain will have to explain for a review by the same body in July 2015. The list includes all the concerns expressed by Rights International Spain in...

Although it is possible to treat practically all mental illnesses successfully, almost two thirds of those afflicted never try to get help. According to WHO experts, stigma, discrimination and self-denial are all obstacles to obtaining proper treatment.

A new petition, launched together with this video, is collecting signatures throughout the member states, asking EU officials to begin debate on a new directive to identify police officers in order to, among other things, deter police abuse.

In the Netherlands, a petition has been started to save a Pakistani Christian woman who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy.

The right to a fair trial before an independent and impartial judge, a basic fundamental right in constitutional democracies, is not enshrined in the Dutch Constitution.

Almost two decades after the devastating conflict in eastern Croatia, a new initiative by civil society calls for a calmer, more reasoned approach to minority rights issues.

Following the appeal by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) to the Minister of the Interior, on October 6 the Lithuanian Police Department changed the discriminatory provisions contained in its long-term...

A lack of transparency still surrounds Europe's migrant detention camps, but the new booklet “The hidden face of immigration detention in Europe" attempts to raise awareness and shed more light on the situation within the camps.

On October 22, Sofia City Court issued its refusal to extradite Russian dissident Nikolay Koblyakov, who was arrested on an Interpol arrest warrant on July 29 at Sofia airport. The Russian authorities wanted his...