CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - April 2018

In 2017, police officers in the Netherlands faced 9,101 incidents of verbal or physical violence directed at them. Every day last year, an average of 25 officers were insulted, threatened or physically abused while...

Romania's government wants to silence organisations working on democracy, anti-corruption and the rule of law. Here's what it looks like in cake form.

A demonstration took place on 10 March to honor Idy Diene, a young Senegalese killed five days earlier in Florence.

Imprisonment rates are on the increase in Europe and the length of time spent behind bars is also on the rise, according to the Council of Europe's Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE) for 2016, published on 20 March. The...

Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organisation that defends the interests of refugees, has questioned the asylum and migration secretary's decision to continue to reduce the number of reception places for...

Beginning today, 3 April, Dunja Mijatović takes up the post of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. A national of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mijatović is the first woman to hold this post, succeeding Nils...

Four openly transgender individuals were elected in the 21 March municipal council elections in the Netherlands.

In an attempt to avoid copyright infringement, the proposal includes measures that will violate users' right to free speech and privacy. Here are five ways the copyright proposal will impact you if it's passed in its current form.

The 28 EU heads of state issued a warning shot on 22 March over allegations that 50 million Facebook users’ data was harvested without their consent to influence political campaigns. “Social networks and digital...