Authoritarians – even the democratically elected ones – love to blame the media for pointing out their lies, corruption or whatever else they were hoping to keep secret. This is nothing new.

Over 1,000 Irish citizens have signed a letter to Irish PM Leo Varadkar to "defend the rights of Irish citizens" in Northern Ireland. According to its initiators, this is necessary due to Brexit. It has been signed by...

Bulgaria and Romania should be admitted to the Schengen area as soon as possible, members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee urge. MEPs want EU ministers to swiftly approve the accession of...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - November 2018

Hackers have published private messages from some 81,000 Facebook accounts, and may have access to 120 million users' accounts in total. The group of hackers had been attempting to sell the private messages from...

Italy was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council with 180 votes. For the countries of the Western European group three places were allocated and there were three candidates, meaning there are no defeated countries in the European Union area.

On 8 October, the first real appeal hearing for the Condor Trial took place, revealing new documents about Operation Condor.

Citizens of the German state of Hesse have finally voted to scrap the death penalty from its Constitution, phasing out a 69-year-old legal anomaly that had allowed it. Eighty-three percent of voters voted to abolish...

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has suggested that his country will withdraw from the United Nations pact on migration. The move, which the European Commission is not happy about, comes after Austria, Hungary and...

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