The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has been dealing with a case of a woman suffering from chronic pain who, despite the recommendations of her attending doctors, was refused the reimbursement of costs of a...

The number of complaints from prisoners about prison conditions has increased sevenfold in Lithuania since 2012. According to a judge from the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court, in 2016 this court alone...

The Aletta Jacobs Prize 2018 will be awarded to Lilianne Ploumen, the Dutch minister of development cooperation. She will receive the award because of her successful efforts towards the advancement of women's and girls' rights, states the jury.

The Seimas Committee on Human Rights on September 20 held discussions on the draft Law on Protection of Prenatal Life. Should the Committee approve the draft, it will be passed on to the Seimas for deliberations. The...

Liberties and our Spanish member Rights International Spain ask for fair and unbiased investigations into police abuses last Sunday in Catalonia, Spain.

Intelligence sharing is important to fight organised crime, but - without adequate monitoring - it can also lead to human rights abuses. Liberties member CILD has launched a new campaign for greater transparency around government intelligence sharing.

The European Commission's desire to modernise copyright law is a good thing, but a key part of its proposal would seriously threaten our freedom of expression.

Some member states of the EU are all too willing to return refugees to their home country and ignore the danger that awaits them there.

For quite some time, thousands of confidential personal identity codes were freely available on the Lithuanian Employment Office website. What’s more, it took a while before the visitor who noticed this gap in...

Due to pressure from several member states, the European Commission has proposed amendments to the Schengen zone to allow internal border controls for as long as three years. Home Affairs Commissioner...