Although the UN Universal Periodic Review praised Lithuania for its commitment to gender equality and its efforts to combat domestic violence, its government was criticized for its reluctance to fight intolerance towards various social groups.

According to the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International, 85 percent of the world's citizens live in a country ruled by a corrupt government. The 2016 edition of the annual report scored only...

Czech NGOs sent an open letter to the Supreme Court in January for its deliberation on whether voting rights should continue to be restricted for legally incapacitated people.

In December, the Parliament announced restrictive limitations on the work of parliamentary correspondents. By mid-January, the limitations expanded to include media coverage of Constitutional Tribunal hearings.

The four men were arrested for raising anti-Semitic banners during a far-right protest in Amsterdam in March of last year.

Fabiano Antoniani ('Fabo') was involved in a violent car crash in 2014 that left him tetraplegic and blind. Feeling "humiliated and in the dark," Fabo's quality of life has been significantly diminished. In...

In the wake of Donald Trump's decision to strip non-US citizens of privacy protection, the European Commission is seeking guarantees that the Privacy Shield data pact with the US won't be dismantled. Last week,...

What does the government want? Fidesz's vice-president, Szilárd Németh, along with MPs of the governing parties, launched a verbal attack against several civil organizations that receive part of their funding from foreign donors.

A group of influential British MPs on the Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee will investigate the threat to democracy from fake news. They aim to find an industry-standard definition of fake news and...

Hungarian authorities erred when they refused to provide a human rights NGO access to information – an essential part of freedom of expression – about the employment of pro deo lawyers.