Authorities who work at EU level may be unable to fully enforce a new data protection regulation after May because of lagging member state legislation. The General Data Protection Regulation, a massive overhaul of EU...

All people with disabilities are to be granted the right to vote in France. In January 2017, the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights called for repeal of Article 5 of the Electoral Code. A UN...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - February 2018

If your costs of living were covered, would you still go to work?

Sometimes we human rights folk get knocked for being so negative about everything that governments do and then not suggesting some sensible alternatives of our own. So here goes.

The Spanish National Court has sentenced another Twitter user to one year in prison for the crime of glorifying terrorism and humiliating victims through a series of tweets published between 2012 and 2013. According...

Excluded from all assistance networks, at least 10,000 people in Italy (men, women and children who are either asylum seekers or beneficiaries of international protection) live in extremely harsh conditions in...

By banning ads featuring characters resembling Jesus and Mary, Lithuania unreasonably restricted free speech and the freedom of expression.

European politicians call for an EU-wide civil society financing fund as a response to growing governmental threats against civil society organisations across Europe.

The European chapter of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) has issued a statement, jointly with the Spanish Federation of LGBT associations, on the recent election...