The National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill that bans outside funding for professional organizations of judges, prosecutors and investigators. The proposal was approved without a debate. There were 116 votes...

Following the alarming evidence that EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still being exported to authoritarian countries around the world, an international network of NGOs urges the EU to comply with its human rights obligations.

Rotterdam staff of the Dutch Council for Refugees, mostly volunteers, have access to very sensitive personal data of hundreds of refugees, whom they do not personally mentor. This includes not only information like...

NGOs involved in search and rescue missions at sea have been facing a months-long attack by Italian media, politicians and even prosecutors, who accuse them of being a pull factor for illegal immigration and even of...

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said he will veto two controversial bills that threaten the independence of the judicial system. One of the bills would immediately end the terms of all Supreme Court justices and...

The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary is greatly dismayed to learn that both houses of the Polish Parliament last week approved judicial reforms in Poland.

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.

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...

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...

The Article 29 Working Party, encompassing privacy watchdogs of all EU member states, issued guidance on the inspection of social media profiles of job applicants. "Employers should not assume that merely because an...