About 4,500 people gathered in front of the European institutions in Brussels to demand justice for migrants. This social movement is supported by a coalition of trade unions and civil liberties groups, including...

The National Police cannot simply prohibit employees from wearing a headscarf in combination with their uniform when their official duties require only limited interaction with the public.

International experts on constitutional law have warned that Poland’s recent legal reforms present 'grave threats' to the independence of the country’s judiciary. The Venice Commission experts are particularly...

The Spanish National Court has sentenced 12 rappers of the collective 'La Insurgencia' to two years in prison for the crime of glorifying terrorism. The court examined the lyrics of their songs in YouTube...

Irish politicians have voted to end the constitutional restriction on abortion and allow the procedure up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy. Following their vote, members of parliament sitting on the Oireachtas Committee...

By taking control of how civil society funding is distributed, the government can severely hinder the work of organisations it doesn’t approve of.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Belgium - December 2017

Spain's Supreme Court has confirmed a one-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down for retweeting messages or images supporting ETA or paying hommage to its members. The Court ruled that the retweets break a law...

Over 10.000 protesters went into the streets of cities across Romania to denounce the government's backtracking on efforts to fight corruption. They demanded the withdrawal of draft legislation that would overhaul the...

The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, appears set to tell EU leaders that Brussels is prepared to abandon the scheme that compels member states to accept quotas of refugees. Tusk will tell leaders at a...