Belgium’s migration minister has been under pressure for organising deportation of Sudanese migrants. Several of the deportees said Sudanese officials tortured them upon arrival. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel...

Police officer Sarah Izat sought legal help after she was not allowed to wear a headscarf at work. Neha Bagga of the Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights (NJCM) interviewed her.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered the judgment in a case that involved a refusal of registration of same-sex civil unions from abroad in Italy.

The United Nations Committee against Torture has adopted its concluding observations on Italy’s situation and recognised many of the issues submitted by Liberties member Antigone in its report.

Parents who try to use European human rights law to avoid compulsory vaccinations for their children are not on solid legal ground.

Germany’s opposition parties on 7 January called for the repeal of a new law that aims to eliminate hate speech on social media. Their primary concern is that private companies should not be making decisions about the...

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued 86 migrants and the bodies of eight women, who died in the tragedy that took place on 6 January. According to Flavio Di Giacomo, the Italian spokesman of The International...

The winners of the CILD Civil Liberties Awards have been announced! Meet these ordinary - and yet extraordinary - individuals.

A court in the Netherlands in December convicted an aide to a former Ethiopian dictator and sentenced him to life in prison for war crimes carried out during Ethiopia’s 'red terror' purges of the 1970s, including...

A total of 312 human rights defenders were killed in 27 countries last year, according to a new report by Front Line Defenders. Eighty percent of killings occurred in four countries – Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and...