What would the World Cup be like without referees? Sort of like what a country would be like without independent judges. And the Polish government is getting rid of its referees as quickly as possible.

Belgium's top court has ruled that the human rights impact of arms exports to Saudi Arabia has not been sufficiently considered.

Ideologies defining nationality as something determined by ethnicity or bloodline deny millions of people the right to citizenship, a UN expert has said. In her first report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN...

Human rights judges declare that the public’s right to access archived material online outweighs the right of convicts to be forgotten.

The violence a police officer used while arresting a woman in Rotterdam last month was not proportional, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb wrote in response to questions from the local DENK faction. The officer was allowed to use...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his stance on migration. Merkel told her Hungarian counterpart that he was forgetting that the issue is about people, and Europe...

A Spanish rapper says he has no regrets about any of his lyrics, which resulted in a conviction in May for insulting the Spanish royal family and glorifying terrorism. Josep Miguel Arenas Beltram, who goes by the...

Poland's judicial purge aims to punish former communist stooges, argued Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. He listened with a poker face as MEPs said his...

The organization wants Minister of Internal Affairs Kajsa Ollongren to hurry with the introduction of an explicit constitutional prohibition against discrimination of LGBTI persons.