The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of the so-called entry/exit system to cross check the identity of people with various databases. The system aims to register all non-EU travellers throughout the...

Thousands of people have demonstrated in Malta to demand justice following the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb last Monday. She rose to prominence through...

Nominations now open for the third edition of the CILD Awards - tell us your human rights hero and why they deserve to be recognized this December in Rome.

Liberties member the League of Human Rights, together with the Czech Helsinki Committee, Lumos and OSF Prague Foundation, defended human rights at the United Nations in Geneva.

"Luxleaks, Panama Papers, Monsanto Papers... Thanks to whistleblowers, who raise collective awareness about serious encroachments on the public interest, our democratic rules have been improved,” said rapporteur of...

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...

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

A bill protecting whistleblowers has passed the Italian Senate and now moves to the House of Deputies. The bill would provide greater protection to whistleblowers in corruption cases, encouraging people to report...

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.

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...