A recent study conducted by the Lithuanian Gay League reveals that gay students in Lithuanian schools still face discrimination. More than half of respondents indicated that their classmates would call them by...

Poland’s conservative populist government has passed a controversial reform of the Supreme Court, just a day after the European Commission's call for the vote to be suspended. The bill passed with the support of 235...

The City Council has published its road map to avoid the detention of migrants, and to protect the human rights of detainees in cases where detention can't be avoided.

The opposition to dual citizenship remains an important issue for the Dutch government. It is not going to ease its rules. "If the bond with another country becomes stronger than the bond with the Netherlands, then...

If the bill becomes law, organizations for magistrates, prosecutors and investigators would no longer be allowed to accept funding from foreign citizens or entities.

The draft amendment to the Act on the Supreme Court, submitted on the evening of July 12, undermines the separation of powers and rule of law in Poland.

After three years of implementing the SATORI project, which aims to develop a common European framework for ethical assessment of research and innovation, organizations participating in the project, including HFHR,...

Marco Cappato, an Italian activist for the freedom of scientific research and the introduction of euthanasia, will go on trial for bringing Dj Fabo, blind and tetraplegic, to Switzerland, to undergo a medical-assisted...

The Lithuanian Gay League on July 12 asked Dalia Grybauskaitė, the president of Lithuania, to veto the Parliament‘s decision to transpose an EU directive without granting family rights to civil partners. The proposed...

The draft law on the Supreme Court in Poland is an attempt to introduce an unconstitutional change to the system of the state, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee in Poland warn.