MEPs clashed on Thursday as votes on reform plans to improve transparency in the European Parliament went through the committee stage. In a surprise vote in the constitutional affairs committee (AFCO) stronger...

Priests in Italy have vowed to open the doors of their churches for refugees who have been evicted from immigration centres. Earlier this month, the Italian parliament approved the so-called Salvini decree,...

On 28 March 2017, a group of activists blocked a flight leaving London Stansted airport with 60 people on board being deported to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Among the deportees was a Nigerian national, who had...

The EU should increase the resources to promote democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights in the Union, including support to civil society groups working in the field, MEPs of the European Parliament’s Civil...

Here's why women, youngsters and minorities have to fight the hardest under authoritarian regimes.

An EU directive forces refugees to resort to irregular migration channels to arrive in the EU, entrusting their lives to rubber dinghies and paying vast sums of money to smugglers.

Latvia’s 100-seat parliament on Thursday rejected the United Nations Global Compact for Migration, which was agreed in July after 18 months of negotiations and is set to be adopted in January 2019 in Marrakesh. The...

164 states have officially adopted the controversial UN migration pact in Marrakesh. It is the first agreement that sets global guidelines for international migration. The aim of the pact is to achieve...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - December 2018

A Hungarian court judged that the 444 news portal had damaged the reputation of a political party by hyperlinking to a third-party video. The European Court of Human Rights has now found that the Hungarian decision violated freedom of speech.