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The minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania announced on May 17 that his country had issued visas to two men fleeing Chechnya due to persecution caused by their sexual orientation.
People who are victims of human trafficking, slavery and domestic servitude have no systematic support for recovery, a sobering report by the UK’s Work and Pensions Committee warns. This means hundreds of victims of...
Dutch King Willem-Alexander has stated in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he is proud that none of the 65,000 refugees and migrants that came to the Netherlands in 2015 have had to sleep without...
The trial of the "six heroes" will begin on May 31 in Brussels. The six, passengers on a recent flight to Africa, are being prosecuted for speaking up to oppose police violence against a man being forcibly returned to Cameroon.
During a special Council of Ministers meeting, Theo Francken, the Belgian secretary of state for asylum and migration, announced he wanted, under the pretext of combatting terrorism and criminality, to build three...
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The Lithuanian government has helped two gay Chechens escape Russia and announced an international effort to protect others. The country's foreign minister, Linas Linkevicius, said on May 17, the international day...
Thousands of people took to the streets of Milan on Saturday, May 20, to ask for a stop to the building of walls and to demand a better system of reception and integration for migrants and refugees. The march was...
Belgium's House of Representatives on May 24 will vote on an amendment to the 2007 law on gender reassignment. This new version of the law aims to ease the requirements that people wishing to change gender on their ID...
The Senate is finally adding the crime of torture to the country's penal code, but the new law doesn't meet the expectations of human rights groups or the UN.
At least 30 cases have been recorded so far this year where a foreigner's application for asylum or humanitarian protection status in Croatia was denied for unsubstantiated security reasons.
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