Rome's mayor, a member of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, has asked Italy's government not to send more migrants to the city. In her request, which follows a very disappointing showing for her party in the...

The European Court of Human Rights last week announced that it has adopted, as of June, a new procedure that allows more detailed reasoning to be given in single-judge decisions. Since the introduction of the...

This is the very question the Regional Court in Warsaw needs to answer in deciding a personal interests protection action brought by district court judge Justyna Koska-Janusz against the minister of justice.

For thousands of refugees, mainly from Africa, the volunteer-ran Baobab Center in Rome was the first stop to find some rest and protection. Although most of them stay only a few days before continuing their journey to...

The Czech Republic is one of the last EU countries that does not have a children's ombudsman, meaning there is no institution to oversee the protection and enforcement of children's rights in the country.

The monitoring report on facilities for migrants by the newly created Italian prisons ombudsman has been released, highlighting the flaws and issues of a system that is far from perfect.

Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu and 13 others have been ordered to stand trial for crimes against humanity related to a 1990 protest in Bucharest. Iliescu called in 10,000 mines armed with clubs to help put down...

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, has announced that a referendum on whether the country should accept the European Union’s refugee quotas could coincide with general elections scheduled for 2019. The cabinet of Prime...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday urged the Czech government to reconsider its decision to stop taking in refugees under an EU-wide scheme to relocate asylum seekers. Earlier this week,...

Humanitarian ships rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean Sea are not acting as a "pull factor" that increases refugee crossings, nor are they "colluding" with smugglers, new research has found. The report by the...