At the beginning of May, the Czech Supreme Court acknowledged a decision by a judge in the US state of California, which declared a pair of Czech gay men as the legal parents of a newly born child. The child was born...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the US CIA to torture them. American forces captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim...

A backdated, one-sentence decision, sent via fax: this is how the Polish minister of justice was dismissing presidents and deputy presidents of courts.

The Commission paid considerable lip service to better supporting rights and democracy groups in the next EU budget. But its proposed funding programme falls short on every count.

The Hungarian government should withdraw a package of laws set to be introduced in the parliament that would significantly restrict the ability of NGOs and individuals to support asylum-seekers and refugees, the UNHCR...

According to the newest Eurobarometer study on immigrants and immigration, Lithuanian residents think that for integration to be successful, it has to be a two-way process, dependent on both society and the immigrants...

At least 15,000 young girls and women in the Netherlands were forced to work in the laundry and sewing rooms of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd between 1860 and 1973, according to research by...

The Bavarian Police Task Act (PAG) was passed and came into force despite major protests. Liberties member GFF has filed a case against the law to the German Constitutional Court. Here's why their legal action matters.

Classified personal information from a database reserved for members of the Schengen zone was copied illegally by the United Kingdom. Furthermore, the UK has shared the database with companies from the US and demands...

​"We are a welcoming Europe, let us help!": The first European Citizens’ Initiative to empower a welcoming Europe has been launched.