The Dutch Intelligence and Security Act enables the use of DNA research and the creation of a DNA database by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD). This DNA test is intended for identifying and...

Twitter has been acussed by Amnesty International of creating an unsafe environment for women online and violating their human rights.

The number of identified victims of labor trafficking has increased in every European country monitored twice by the Council of Europe, according to a new report. The human rights body says that men working in...

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...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - April 2018

Lithuanian organizations working in the field of mental health have publicly criticized a member of parliament's proposal to completely ban gender reassignment procedures, thus restricting transgender rights even...

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

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...

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.