It’s now nearly a month since the country's ruling party came into conflict the management of Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). Accusing the latter of lacking transparency, politicians from the Farmers...

At first glance, 'My Rainbow Family' looks like any other children's book. But this impression changes almost as soon as you meet the characters: one little girl has two fathers, and a young boy has two mothers. It is...

The European Court of Human Rights has notified the Spanish government that it will consider the case of a young man who was subjected to a police stop-and-search for no other reason than that he is black.

The European Parliament on 17 January voted to stop the export of dangerous surveillance equipment to rights-abusing governments. The vote is a step forward to protect activists, human rights defenders, journalists,...

Bosnian Dunja Mijatovic, the former Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europ representative on media freedom, was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to serve as the new Council...

Dutch rights groups are calling on the country's interior minister to express the need to explicitly prohibit LGBTI discrimination in the Constitution.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans on Wednesday asked the Romanian Parliament to rethink changes to laws governing the judiciary, which have raised concerns...

Twenty-five years ago, Rosalind Williams was stopped for being black. At a recent event in Madrid, young activists shared similar stories from today.

The presidential election in the Czech Republic has escalated after incumbent Milos Zeman’s supporters published ads that said, “Stop migration and Drahoš, this country is ours, vote for Zeman”. While Zeman's...

The Sejm, the lower house of Poland's Parliament, has voted to send to committee a bill that would ban abortions due to irreversible damage to the foetus. A similar bill was considered by legislators in October 2016,...