The Chamber of Deputies is set to take up debate on a bill to regulate the medical use of cannabis –​ but only after the original meaning of the proposal was radically changed.

Here is the open letter from 57 signatories asking EU policy-makers to delete Article 13 of the new proposal on copyright in the digital single market.

Around 1,000 people are participating to a relay hunger strike, which was initiated by a group of teachers and students, to support the ongoing reform of the law on citizenship. The new law, which was passed by the...

Poland's president has signed into law a bill on funding for non-governmental organisations that may be used to undercut groups with missions that conflict with the ruling party's positions. International human rights...

The Court of Assize of Milan has issued a historical judgment recognizing that torture is taking place in Libyan detention camps for migrants. It is the first judgment that openly talks of the terrible inhuman...

Sweden and Denmark top the EU in gender equality in society, while Greece and Hungary are at the bottom of the list, according to the latest report of the European Institute for Gender Equality, an EU agency. States...

Freedom of assembly is the right to peacefully gather together for any purpose without interference.

Torture survivors have won a case against the Home Office on asylum seeker detention in the UK. The government had argued that torture could only be carried out by state agents or terror groups with territory. But the...

After a vote by Foreign Affairs and Development Committees MEPs, the finalists for this year’s Sakharov Prize are: Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic, a human rights defender from Guatemala; Democratic Opposition in...

Liberties member the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has warned that Strasbourg judgments on access to abortion are not being implemented in Poland.