The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, a Liberties member, has prepared a new brochure for foreigners. The publication explains in an accessible way the rules governing foreign nationals’ education and work in...

Staff shortages in hospitals often lead to patients being tied down or given calming medication, and the country’s use of caged beds has been criticised internationally for 20 years. New guidelines from the Ministry still fail to meet EU standards.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Lithuania - November 2017

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - November 2017

Counsellors in the Netherlands are overworked and underpaid, according to a new study of the legal aid system in the Netherlands.

Police in the German capital Berlin regularly misuse their internal information database, POLIKS. Reports by the daily Morgenpost reveal a case when a police officer used the database to spy on her neighbours for...

New reforms to Poland's judiciary could aggravate the systematic threat to the rule of law in the country, EU Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans told MEPs on November 6. Timmermans is urging the Polish...

The European Court of Human Rights has determined that the Hungarian authorities violated the fundamental human rights of a Roma man by covering up a coercive police interrogation.

Rabobank in the Netherlands discriminated against a blind customer by not providing equal accessibility to their mobile app for online banking.

The consultative referendum on the new Intelligence and Security Act (Wiv) will be held simultaneously with the municipal elections on March 21, 2018. This was announced by the Electoral Council on November 2. The...