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.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Lithuania - March 2018

The four judges’ associations and the three prosecutors’ associations in Spain have agreed on a mobilization calendar for April, leading to a strike on May 22, if the authorities do not take seriously their proposals...

New figures from the UK show an almost fivefold increase in reports of alleged female genital mutilation (FGM) to police. Between 2014 and the end of 2016, responses by 47 police departments to freedom of information...

A new annual report on the state of civil society reveals a number of disturbing trends. The report, prepared by CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists, warns that attacks are...