Detention facilities are not places for children, but there are currently 60 children living with their inmate mothers in Italian prisons.

Strasbourg judges have accepted a unilateral declaration from the Polish government that it erred in yet another case of an incapacitated person being institutionalised against his will.

Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Google have agreed to up their efforts to tackle extremist content, pledging to remove such posts within hours of them going online. The pledge from the world's largest tech companies...

Holding posters with slogans like "Stop AfD" and "My voice against incitement", thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday in Berlin to protest the far-right Alternative for Germany's (AfD) debut in parliament this...

Whistleblowers expose information on activities within a company, a ministry or some other organisation that they consider to be illegal or grossly unethical.

COC Nederland, a Dutch LGBTI rights organisation, has called on the EU to drastically improve the global protection of LGBTI individuals.

In Burmych and Others v Ukraine, the European Court of Human Rights decides to strike 12,143 cases from its docket, in accordance with Article 37 ECHR. The Court refers to its pilot judgment in Ivanov v Ukriane, in...

The lower house of Italy's Parliament has approved a law legalising cannabis for medical use. The bill allows doctors to prescribe cannabis for pain therapy, the cost of which will be covered by the National Health...

A former Dutch security service employee's right to a fair trial was violated by national courts in his trial for passing classified documents to unauthorised people, the Strasbourg court has ruled.

Since 2001, EU governments have been eating away at our human rights in the name of fighting terrorism. Naturally, we are scared of terrorist attacks: no one wants to be injured or killed. We look to the authorities to do something that makes us safer.