A new bill recognizes the legal status of the Royal House of Romania, undertakes to finance its expenditures, and provides salaries to the heirs of former heads of state.

The overuse of pre-trial detention in Europe is a serious problem that has many negative consequences. A new report calls for urgent action by EU countries to come up with alternatives.

More than half of Romanians have little confidence in their national ombudsperson, a stark contrast to countries with respected, well-funded rights protection offices, like Norway.

Twelve countries have yet to contribute anything to the €3 billion EU-Turkey deal, according to a European Commission report out Wednesday. Belgium, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and...

Many Romanians are unaware that the national ombudsperson can protect their constitutional rights, but a new project by local NGOs aims to inform citizens and encourage them to seek help when needed.

Despite available legal alternatives, including house arrest, judicial supervision and bail, pre-trial detention is almost always ordered by Romanian judges.

Sixteen Roma people, all of them citizens of Romania, have made a complaint against Poland to the European Court of Human Rights for having their houses razed in July 2015 by Wroclaw city authorities. There were four...

A Romanian man went to the European Court of Human Rights after he was dismissed from his job for using work instant messenger for personal conversations. The court found in Bărbulescu v. Romania that employers have...

Workers from Slovakia, Romania and Vietnam were forced to toil for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no pay.

A 34-year-old man from Eindhoven has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for human trafficking. He severely abused three women in 2009 and 2010. He made a Dutch woman work in the sex industry and took her...