President Andrzej Duda says Poland has the right "to defend historical truth" and he is ready to sign the controversial Holocaust bill despite diplomatic rows with Israel and the US. Duda defended the legislation,...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Belgium - February 2018

For the first time, a woman will be trained as a marine, the elite soldier of the Dutch Navy. The course was opened to women in January 2017 by then Minister of Defense Jeannine Hennis-Plasschaert. For 351 years prior...

A year after his first visit, Italy's national guarantor of the rights of people deprived of liberty went back to Lampedusa and uncovered the same intolerable living conditions that he had previously reported.

From smear campaigns to funding restrictions, governments across the EU are increasingly trying to silence human rights defenders. As the European Parliament prepares to debate the issue, Liberties offers its recommendations to improve the situation.

Ahead of Safer Internet Day on 6 February 2018, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) had to be evaluated and possibly amended. Merkel made this announcement in a video...

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture has just published the report on its visit to Lithuania. Even though fewer and fewer people find themselves in detention, many convicts and detainees are still held...

After clashes between Afghans and Eritreans in Calais, France, at least five migrants have been shot. Four young Eritrean men were taken to a local hospital for surgery in critical condition, while a fifth was taken...

The EU border agency Frontex is stepping up intelligence gathering of migrants pulled from the Mediterranean in an effort to identify terrorist suspects and criminals. On 1 February, Frontex launched its Themis...

Another Twitter user has been sentenced in Spain for glorifying terrorism and humiliating the victims. The court took into account the repentance of the accused, who never posted any similar message again, as well as...