The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad Hussein, has called out extremists in Europe, in particular in Hungary and Poland, for creating an environment where "fundamental freedoms are in...

The leader of France's far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, was charged on Thursday over her tweeting of gruesome images of Islamic State atrocities in the Middle East, which included a photo of the...

In order to help voters make an informed decision on 4 March, the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights has researched each party's position on immigration and the law on citizenship.

The Helsinki Committee in Poland indicates that the end of 2015 was the starting point for an array of events which necessitate stepping up efforts in the area of human rights monitoring. “The two years that passed...

Representatives of national and ethnic minorities organisations have called on Polish authorities to tackle the rising wave of xenophobia and violence based on nationality, race and religion. “We are a country with a...

A former French parliamentarian who threatened to "drive out" certain judges has lost his bid to overturn a conviction and fine against him.

From cannabis legalisation to police identification, here are five areas where urgent legal reform is needed. Will Italy's leading candidates give their support?

A majority of the Dutch House of Representatives has voted in favour of abolishing the advisory referendum. In addition to the Dutch parties VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie, the SGP also voted to abolish these...

Customers’ personal data – even if it is stored on servers outside the EU, as it is often the case in the cloud computing era – should be turned over by tech companies, according to a new proposal of the European...

Three weeks after the attempted massacre by Luca Traini, who shot randomly at refugees in the city center, Macerata is the setting of a new racist and xenophobic episode: one or more people (whose identity is still...