A narrow majority in the Dutch Senate voted in favor of abolishing the advisory referendum, meaning the referendum is officially scrapped. So far, the Netherlands has held two advisory referendums, one on a...

Who has been sending weapons to Saudi Arabia? And which country just sacked its top corruption investigator? How well did you keep up with European human rights news this week?

The Italian government has blocked a commercial ship flying the Italian flag from docking in the country's ports because it was carrying dozens of rescued migrants. The Vos Thalassa, a supply ship for oil rigs,...

Criminal proceedings against Sea Watch began in April 2018, after a ship of the NGO was accused of bringing migrants to Italy. Criminal proceedings against Proactiva Open Arms’s ship, Golfo Azzurro, began in May 2017,...

Luxembourg lawmakers in June unanimously supported a law legalizing medical cannabis. Patients suffering from chronic pain, nausea related to chemotherapy, or muscle spasms resulting from multiple sclerosis will be...

The Higher Regional Court in Munich ruled on Wednesday to sentence to life in prison a German neo-Nazi. Beate Zschaepe was a member of the National Socialist Underground, whose members killed eight Turks, a Greek and...

A children's rights expert says she is “deeply worried," about the state of children's rights in the Netherlands.

The High Council of Health (Css) of the Italian Ministry of Health, referring to products containing or made up of hemp inflorescence sold around Italy in so-called ‘canapa shops,’ has said that's impossible to be...

Strasbourg judges have rejected a complaint brought by Anders Behring Breivik, who murdered 77 people and bombed Oslo in 2011.

​The Dutch minister of justice and security has lawfully denied asylum permits for three transgender persons from Cuba.