According to the latest public survey in Lithuania, most people believe that female victims of violence should receive assistance, but also that women are often the cause of the violence itself.

Members of the European Parliament are calling for a thorough investigation into the murders of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, and into alleged misuse of EU funds in Slovakia. An ad hoc delegation from the...

An appeals court has found a journalist with the Polish edition of Newsweek guilty of violating the confidentiality of his own informant.

'Tackling disinformation online' is the title of the EC’s new report on fake news. The intentions are good, but the outcome could severely hurt free speech in Europe. Read our quick analysis.

A delegation from three human rights groups has found inhuman conditions and systematic violations of human rights inside the Lampedusa hotspot.

A new 'zero paper' by experts working under Bulgaria's EU Presidency suggests to solve EU member states' disagreements over migration by doing away with quotas and giving more decision-making power to national...

Ireland has approved a bill to allow a referendum on changing the country's restrictive abortion law. The referendum bill was agreed by the Irish cabinet on Thursday, 8 March – International Women’s Day. It...

The abuse of two people while under arrest by Civil Guard officers leads to the first conviction against Spain for a material violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In the case Mockutė v. Lithuania, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found that Lithuania violated two articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): the right to privacy and the right to...

Here's a warning from my parrot and me about the EU's proposed Copyright Directive. It's not too late to protect free speech online.