RIS has taken part in training sessions for police agents, officials, politicians and civil society on how to analyze stop-and-search data to help combat the use of ethnic profiling.

A new study reveals that suspects don't understand their rights and, as a result, can't enjoy them effectively.

From incommunicado detention to violence against women, there are many shortcomings in Spain's efforts to combat torture. The Spanish state will soon have to account for its actions, or lack thereof.

Britain's Labour Party is urging Prime Minister Theresa May to drop her "red line" objection to the role of the European Court of Justice after Brexit. In a letter published Wednesday in the Financial Times, Labour...

In the context of the ongoing process of regulating immigration detention at the Council of Europe level, CILD has joined the International Detention Coalition and others in a joint statement advocating for a...

Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil has announced that the government is ready to send troops and armored vehicles to the Brenner Pass border area with Italy in an effort to stop migrants from entering...

Here is the joint statment by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Liberties on the Hungarian NGO law, which has now entered into force.

The June attack against the Stonewall Group is the latest in a string of assaults on civil society organizations working to promote LGBT rights. It's time for the government to step up and protect these groups from future violence.

Italy plans to draw up a "code of conduct" for NGOs rescuing people at sea and bringing them to Italian ports. The plan has the support of France, Germany and the European Commission. The proposal was announced...

The Amsterdam High Court on June 29 sentenced all four suspects in the so-called Passage Process, which involved gang murders, to life in prison. This ruling is striking. In April 2016, the Strasbourg court ruled in...