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For the third consecutive year across Europe, drug overdoses are on the rise, the latest report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) shows. According to data from 2015, 8,441...
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A civil rights group is asking German authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the deputy director of the CIA because of her alleged complicity in the torture of terrorism suspects 15 years ago. The request, made in...
British Prime Minister Theresa May's statement that she will weaken human rights protections to fight terrorism is outrageous and exactly what authoritarian leaders around the world wanted to hear, Salil Shetty, the...
A new bill currently under consideration in Parliament includes regulations on government-sponsored hacking, but watchdogs say the language needs changing to protect citizens' right to privacy.
The Czech Republic has said it will stop taking in migrants under the EU scheme to relocate across the Union asylum seekers who arrived in Greece and Italy. The government on Monday said the decision was taken because...
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said she would not hesitate to change human rights laws if they "get in the way" of combating terror. Speaking specifically about terrorist suspects, she said changes would be made in...
Charities say they have been forced to change their public messaging during the general election campaign because of the "chilling" effect of the Lobbying Act. The warning, from a group of leading UK-based...
At present, an individual is not allowed to petition the Constitutional Court to hear their case, but the Parliament is currently discussing draft laws that would change this.
Denmark’s ruling Venstre (Liberal) party has announced that is changing its position and now supports abolishing the language on blasphemy in the country’s law code. The party's decision to change its stance means...
Veselin Mareshki, the leader of the political party Volya and the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, has urged fellow MPs to declare their "homosexual conflicts of interests" as well as drug or alcohol...
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