Many Romanians are unaware that the national ombudsperson can protect their constitutional rights, but a new project by local NGOs aims to inform citizens and encourage them to seek help when needed.

Despite available legal alternatives, including house arrest, judicial supervision and bail, pre-trial detention is almost always ordered by Romanian judges.

Sixteen Roma people, all of them citizens of Romania, have made a complaint against Poland to the European Court of Human Rights for having their houses razed in July 2015 by Wroclaw city authorities. There were four...

A Romanian man went to the European Court of Human Rights after he was dismissed from his job for using work instant messenger for personal conversations. The court found in Bărbulescu v. Romania that employers have...

Workers from Slovakia, Romania and Vietnam were forced to toil for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no pay.

A 34-year-old man from Eindhoven has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for human trafficking. He severely abused three women in 2009 and 2010. He made a Dutch woman work in the sex industry and took her...

In the era of biometrics, where computer facial recognition is possible even for those wearing a burka, Romanian police still get tripped up by a little facial hair.

A man is abused by three police officers after complaining about getting stiffed by a Bucharest taxi driver. After eight years of inaction by Romanian authorities, the European Court of Human Rights has delivered justice.

Politicians must accept that Romanian hospitals cannot cope with the number of injured from the fire at the Colectiv nightclub and seek immediate help from the European community.

After a fire at a nightclub in Bucharest leaves dozens dead, 70,000 people take to the streets of cities across Romania to protest against the corruption of political elites.