The Council of Europe is calling on Italy to classify torture, recognized as a crime against humanity by international and European law, as a crime under national law. "The Italian legal system is not yet equipped...

Since 1992, Italy has spent 648 million euros on unjust detention. Although Parliament adopted laws in 2013 and 2015 to limit the use of pre-trial and without-trial detention, Italy remains the European country with...

The UK Human Rights Act (HRA) should not be used to sue the police, the Home Office argued on Monday in a landmark Supreme Court case. Two women attacked by infamous "black cab rapist" John Worboys are pursuing a case...

The Hungarian authorities' treatment of asylum seekers at border transit zones is against the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Tuesday. The verdict says that...

Four-month-old Honzik has suffered from facial paralysis since he received a second vaccination, as mandated by the state.

Employers may ban workers from the "visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign," including headscarves, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The ECJ did specify that such a ban must be...

At the Roma Tre University, the class "Prisoner Clinic" ("Clinica legale"), taught by professor Patrizio Gonnella, president of CILD and Antigone, takes place in the women's prison of Rebibbia. The class is an...

The UK's failure to guarantee the rights of EU workers following Brexit would be devastating to academia, warns a letter by dozens of Oxford University heads to the House of Commons. European staff "are worried, some...

Current EU policies and practices regarding refugees "has led to instances of serious fundamental rights violations in both Italy and Greece," a new study by the EP concluded. It points out that countries failed to...

Marine Le Pen’s possible victory this May scares many, including financial markets in fear of a bursting of the euro and Europeans in fear of a bursting European Union.