German Chancellor Angela Merkel will soon unveil a new 16-point plan to increase deportations of failed asylum seekers. The plan gives authorities access to asylum seekers' phones and SIM cards to verify their...

There is a lack of cultural diversity in the police, says police chief Erik Akerboom of the National Police Corps. Police commissioner Max Daniel recently stated in an interview with de Volkskrant that the police will...

Given the effects of globalization and the war on terrorism, immigration will not go away. Unless a new "energy" is not found in Italy and around the world, the immigration epidemic will see no resolution.

The first professor specialized in human rights education to teach at a Dutch university was appointed on January 1.

A new overview report on closed centers in Belgium has been published, 10 years after the previous one. It clearly shows that administrative detention violates human rights and human dignity.

"Fuocoammar," a documentary written by Gianfranco Rosi and released last year, shed light on the struggles of immigrants from North Africa in Lampedusa. Through the eyes of a young school boy and a doctor, the short...

Researchers at Stanford and Princeton universities have concluded that 72 percent of users can be identified by comparing their web-browsing history to information publicly available on social media. The project...

The first lawsuit against obstetric violence has been rejected by Czech courts. The claimant must pay 2,200 euros legal costs to the hospital in Nachod, Czech Republic

The company's contract to export surveillance systems to Egyptian government has been stopped after human rights groups urged the Italian Ministry of Economic Development to reconsider the plan.

The EU's new Directive on Combating Terrorism has been given the green light for approval after the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee accepted the legal basis for the law. The directive, which was...