It is a dark time for harm reduction in Hungary: another life-saving service has fallen victim to political paranoia.

The Opening Doors campaign today released a report assessing the extent to which eight EU member states (Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Romania) have used EU funds to catalyze...

Over forty organizations, led by the Prison Litigation Network, are calling on the ministers of foreign affairs of Council of Europe member states to rectify the structural problems facing many prison systems throughout Europe.

Civil society is concerned about the new proposals from Romanian state institutions, which want to introduce, as an urgent matter, several mass surveillance measures that violate human rights.

A recent report has found that children deprived of liberty are exposed to increased risks of abuse, violence, acute social discrimination and denial of their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

On the International Day of Human Rights several dozen young people gathered in Bucharest in front of a police station where many citizens have been reportedly abused in recent years. One of the abused died in the ...

If you live in Romania, your Facebook page is now considered public space. The recent ruling by Romania's supreme court is the first of its kind in Romania, where there are over 7 million Facebook users.

A journalist's arrest and beating is the latest in a string of violent acts by Romanian police officers against civilians. Civil society is demanding a full investigation and the closure of one station notorious for abuses.

A man beaten by police while in custody is the latest example of human rights violations by Romanian law enforcement officers.

More than two decades after lives were lost to see freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, protesters in Romania are forced to fight for it again, this time in front of the courts, making use of lawyerly tricks and procedural flaws.