Twenty-eight signatories – among them Liberties – sent an open letter to EU governments expressing their concerns over slow progress in the ePrivacy reform currently being finalised by the Council. The European...

The Netherlands recently deported 50 Albanian nationals via a specially chartered flight to Tirana. Hundreds of Albanian nationals have claimed asylum in the Netherlands despite the fact that their cases have no ...

A solid 40 percent of refugees win court cases they filed to appeal the decision made on their asylum status in Germany. For those coming from Syria and Afghanistan, the figure stands at 60 percent. In 2017, a full...

Poland has some of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, but the ruling PiS party wants to tighten them further still. This would put Poland at odds with international law. "Stop tightening abortion laws," read...

The new measures come as migrants' human rights continue to be violated from the moment they set foot in Europe.

The number of people helped to die under Dutch euthanasia legislation rose 8% last year, to 6,585, the regional monitoring committee said in March. Of these procedures, 99.8% were carried out carefully and in line...

Sweden is now the first country in the world to offer compensation to transgender people who were forced to undergo sterilization in order to be allowed to change their sex. Up until 2013, Swedish citizens had to...

The film "Stranger in Paradise," by Guido Hendrix, was awarded the Grand Prix for best documentary at Europe’s leading international human rights film event, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights....

Freedom of speech is one of the basic foundations of any democratic society, and any restrictions that are placed on it must meet strict standards.

Facebook's chief executive apologized after 50 million users' data was mishandled by the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which improperly accessed user information to build profiles on American voters....