Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland of the Council of Europe has presented the Raoul Wallenberg Prize for extraordinary humanitarian achievement to the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC).

The Hungarian government recently submitted to parliament a package of three legislative proposals that would further paralyse the work of civil society groups.

The perpetrator of a shooting spree in Italy has admitted that his act was one of revenge against the murder of an Italian woman by a foreign national.

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the face of the Catholic Church in Germany, no longer rejects the liturgical blessing of same-sex couples. In individual cases, the Marx wants to give space for this on the basis of...

The former boss of the Union of European Football Associations, Michel Platini, has lodged a complaint against Switzerland with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), alleging his human rights have been...

Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data violate German consumer law, a Berlin regional court has ruled. The court determined that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing its...

Despite the international attention surrounding Poland's controversial new Holocaust bill, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declined to comment when asked about it on Saturday, 10 February. The law imposes jail time of...

A few days after the European Court of Human Rights trial of the "Jesus in jeans" case, a criminal court in Jaén, Spain, fined a young man 480 euros for a crime against religious feelings. He posted on Instagram a...

Some of Europe’s best-known luxury jewelers have been accused of failing to ensure that the gold and diamonds on their shelves were sourced ethically, with many reportedly lacking adequate policies to stamp out...

Poland's national Office for Foreigners has published the statistical data on the international protection granted by the country in 2017. But the numbers don't tell the whole story.