Facebook on Monday announced plans for an independent oversight board that will have the power to overturn company decisions on user posts. The move is an effort to combat the spread of misinformation and abusive...

Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) has announced the launch of a series that is specially adapted for the visually impaired. This is the first project in Lithuania with a special soundtrack for the blind...

Redrawing electoral district maps, amending election laws, adding large pools of citizens with voting rights to the national constituency - just a few examples of how authoritarians attempt to manipulate electoral systems.

Our authoritarian leaders continue to hold regular elections featuring a number of real opposition parties. But that doesn't mean any of the opposition parties actually have a chance of winning.

The Lithuanian Parliament has started the new year by making fresh attempts to restrict the freedom of the media and the public to express their views.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania has finally resolved the dispute between the Vilnius City Municipality and the State that had been going on for more than two years. The State argued, with support from...

Polish prosecutors were asked by police to examine the evidence against ultra-nationalists who demonstrated at Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day. Local police sent a video of a group of people who, under a large...

The Sea-Watch 3, which rescued 47 people from drowning in the Mediterranean ten days ago, is still looking for safe harbour. On Friday night it entered the port of Syracuse and is now anchored there. The mayor of...

European Union data protection authorities have reached an agreement on how to address the threat by Romania's data chief to impose a €20 million fine on several journalists who exposed high-level corruption in the...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Belgium - January 2019