The UN General Assembly on Friday voted for Denmark to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the next three years. It will be the first time that Denmark has a seat at the UNHRC table, which it...

Germany has extradited the prime suspected in the murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. Severin Krasimirov, who was arrested last week in a German town near Hamburg, was connected to the crime after his...

Worldwide, too many businesses are putting profits before human rights, while governments fail to “regulate and lead by example”, argues a fresh human rights report by the United Nations. UN rights experts urge...

The ship "Mare Ionio", flying the Italian flag, on its mission "Mediterranea" will be the only vessel carrying out rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

​Disinformation is all over the place. Populist politicians brand any story or news outlet that disagree with “fake news,” yet they are so often the ones behind the most mendacious disinformation.

The head of Urgence Homophobie, a gay association in France has been beaten up in Paris in what the victim, Guillaume Mélanie, said was a homophobic attack. His nose was broken when he was leaving a restaurant near...

Facebook on Tuesday introduced new transparency tools for political advertisers on the social media site. Advertisers now have to prove the identity and location of any organisation or party that has paid for such...

Poland and the Czech Republic are pushing back on EU plans to create a new border force with 10,000 additional guards. The new body would be under the control of Frontex, the EU border agency. But both Polish Prime...

The Human Rights Monitoring Institute published its study titled Violence by Intimate Partners in Lithuania - Women's Perspective.

More than 240,000 thousand people demonstrated in Berlin on Saturday under the motto "Solidarity not Marginalization."