Consent theorists think that the obligation to obey the law can only come from voluntary acceptance. If it can be shown that we have consented to obey the laws, their case is made.

The EU's drug agency has said there is 'growing' evidence that drug consumption rooms are used by marginalised users, improve injecting practices and reduce the visibility of public drug use. The European Monitoring...

More than 20,000 Romanians protested across the country on Sunday against proposed changes to judiciary laws that would make them more tolerant to corruption. One proposal would take away the president’s power to...

There has been a decrease in the number of reports of human trafficking in recent years, but this is no cause for relief: trafficking does not occur less often, but is instead becoming more invisible.

The European Court of Human Rights will examine applications filed by families of victims of the Smolensk plane crash who oppose the exhumation of their loved ones’ bodies.

Politicians arguing in favour of mass surveillance often make a distinction about the kind of information that they want to collect. They argue that just collecting our metadata, rather than content data, is fine. Let's look at that claim...

The introduction of the new Intelligence and Security Act has been postponed until May 1, 2018, when the referendum on the act will be complete. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, appointing a new review...

Tomasz spent 81 days in prison for the sole reason that another person with the same name had committed an offence during the period of Tomasz’ conditional release. He has won a personal interests case brought against...

The European Union’s answer to protecting children from harmful content on the internet and combating copyright infringement is to require internet companies to filter the internet.

Representatives of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights met with Diego Garcia-Sayan, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, upon his arrival in Poland. The conversation...