The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has reported a case to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women involving domestic violence against a woman and the state’s failure to protect her....

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has intervened in the case of Daniel, who for years has been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and who has been sentenced to nine months in prison for attempting to...

The rapper known as Valtonyc has just be sentenced to three and a half years of prison by the National High Court of Spain for the crimes of glorifying terrorism, humiliation of the victims of terrorism, slander and...

Over a year since Giulio Regeni’s murder, the investigations is still moving slowly. Antigone, Amnesty and CILD warn that the return of the Italian ambassador to Egypt would be a sign of giving up on the case.

The party representing the Polish minority in Lithuania plans to submit a draft law that would make abortion illegal in the country.

The time it takes to process an asylum request in Germany increased to an average of 8.1 months by the end 2016, up from an average 5.2 months a year ago, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reported....

There was an average of nearly 10 attacks each day on migrants in Germany in 2016, the Interior Ministry has said. A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children. Three-quarters of the...

As they push for progress on euthanasia laws, doctors in Denmark are risking prison to help terminally ill patients die. The doctors work with Doctors for Active Euthanasia, which so far has helped 10 patients to die....

As Italy is going to lead the OSCE in 2018, the Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms has recently joined the Civic Solidarity Platform - a network of more than 50 human rights NGOs working in the OSCE area...

International human rights organizations have called the European Commission to take decisive measures against Poland's disregard for EU values and the rule of law.