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...

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,...

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

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...

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 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,...

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...

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.

The social media posts incited discrimination and violence against Muslims and black people.

Facebook has admitted that it can't offer any assurance that social media is on the whole good for democracy. However, Facebook said it's doing what it can to stop people from using its service to influence...