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Italy's Chamber of Deputies has voted through a bill that aims to reduce the use of remand detention and strengthen the conditions according to which a judge may order a person detained while they await trial. The...
As Roma communities struggle with high sickness rates and a lack of health services, Bulgaria introduces the profession of health mediator in an effort to help disadvantaged groups access healthcare. Watch the video to find out what this job entails.
Italy's Centers for Identification and Expulsion for undocumented migrants, places of abuses and degrading treatment, will now be investigated by a parliamentary commission.
Responding to Prime Minister David Cameron's speech announcing new counter-terror proposals, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "Dumping suspect citizens like toxic waste is a very strange way ...
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.
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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.
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.
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