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,...

Victor Stanciu, a 60-year-old man, was taken from his home by two police officers to Police Station no. 19 in Bucharest, where he was beaten, allegedly for refusing to show his ID.

Even before the European Commission could conclude its infringement procedure against the Hungarian government for a previous anti-civil society law, Budapest took up discussion of a new package of laws to shackle civil society.

Ireland’s opposition leader has stirred the country’s abortion debate by saying he disagrees with the majority of his party and support repeal of the ban on terminating pregnancies. Micheál Martin noted the "cruel...