Prison overcrowding causes serious issues, as its fosters violence and causes detainees to live in physical and psychological distress. Here it is what is happening in French and Italian prisons.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Bulgarian state violated the Convention on Human Rights by not acting to reunite children who had been unlawfully taken away from their parents.

The municipality of Amsterdam wants the government to call out Russia because of the Chechen camps where gay men are being held. City officials also want Dutch State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff to change the asylum...

The proposed amendment to the National School of Judiciary Act would introduce changes to the procedure for appointing associate judges to the bench for a trial period, directly upon passing the judicial professional...

In a letter issued to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vitebsk city in Belarus, Civil Rights Defenders calls for the immediate release of Pavel Levinov and for all administrative charges against him to be dropped. He...

Watch as thousands of young people in Budapest protest against an increasingly authoritarian regime.

The police in the Netherlands can search a smartphone as long as it does not disproportionally infringe on the owner's privacy.

CILD, Antigone and other civil rights organizations recently held a protest in front of the Italian Parliament against the approval of the decree on immigration, which the groups consider detrimental to migrants....

Despite the large demonstration by various groups in front of Palazzo Montecitorio this Monday, April 11, during the vote on the Minniti-Orlando decree on security and immigration, the measure was approved by the...

The Dutch Second Chamber (Lower House) voted on April 11 to punish schools that do not include education about being gay. The ruling center-right party VVD voted against the proposal, along with only two tiny conservative fringe parties.