The European Commission (EC) has told social media companies they should remove illegal content with two hours of it being posted. The EC, in a meeting with almost two dozen social media companies on 9 January, told...

This week, the Council of Europe (CoE) and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) discussed the role of human rights in sports. During the discussion, they underlined the importance of several...

A new amendment to the tax law that entered into force on 1 January provides wider access to the 'rehabilitation credit' for owners of assistance dogs.

Italy's Court of Cassation has rejected the final appeal of two officers against their conviction for beating a detainee for having converted to Islam. The officers were originally given sentences of 2 years and 8...

A senior legal adviser of the EU has said that same-sex partners of EU citizens enjoy the same free movement rights as partners of a different gender. Advocate general Melchior Wathelet at the Court of Justice of the...

The leaders of four political groups in the European Parliament want Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ryszard Czarnecki to lose his title of vice president of the body, after he used a Nazi-era slur to...

The European Commission will be proposing EU-level plans before the summer on how to tackle fake news. Mariya Gabriel, EU commissioner for digital economy, on Monday told reporters in Brussels that proposals would be...

The new Czech government must clearly declare that it has an interest in inclusion. Funding for inclusive education and teacher training is insufficient.

A new report says the number of human rights defenders being killed remains "truly shocking" and there's "little hope that this will change in the short term".

Inaccurate data entered into EU-wide security databases, for example the Schengen information system and visa information system, threatens human rights and security, the director of the Fundamental Rights Agency...