Lithuania may soon become the only country in Europe to ban gender reassignment.

Facebook says it is having success using its artificial intelligence to delete terrorism-related posts, though more work is still needed. At present, roughly 99% of material Facebook removes because of links to Al...

What turned out to be the #MeToo international campaign against harassment encouraged more than 600 female politicians in Iceland to go public with allegations of sexual harassment. Iceland, with the population of...

Media freedom around the world is at its lowest level in at least a decade, a new study shows. Journalists are increasingly under threat from government censorship, organised crime and commercial pressures. The...

Italy's government was asked tough questions during the review of its implementation of the Convention against Torture. Detainees' rights and state authorities' use of torture remain problematic areas.

Free speech won an important battle in the copyright reform debate in the European Parliament, though many threats to our rights remain.

As alarm grows about Russia's propaganda campaign, the EU has said it will spend €1.1 million on training diplomats to monitor fake news. This money, as well as nearly €4 million in related expenses, will be part of...

A mayor in Germany has survived a knife attack that police believe was motivated by his liberal stance on immigration. Andreas Hollstein, conservative mayor of the town of Altena, was stabbed in the neck in a kebab...

What would Italy's state budget look like if civil society had the final say? Sbilanciamoci! answers this question by gathering the contributions of dozens of NGOs.

Over 20.000 demonstrators went into the streets on Bucharest on Sunday to protest the ruling Social Democrat government's plan to make changes to Romania's justice system. Critics of the government fear the proposed...