Lithuanian MPs unanimously voted to amend the country's Civil Code to limit the right to criticize public figures.

On the anniversary of the death of Piergiorgio Welby, the Associazione Luca Coscioni held a conference at the Chamber of Deputies titled "Welby 10 years later. A fight that brings new liberties." During the...

Eleven months ago, on January 25, 2016, Giulio Regeni disappeared in Egypt. He was later found with signs of torture on his body and to this day it is still unknown what happened to him. Next month, on January 25, the...

In late December, the third "Report on Immigration and Business 2016" was presented by the Study and Research Centre IDOS. The report found that at the end of 2015, 9.1 percent of businesses are led by immigrants, and...

The Italian media didn’t talk often about migration in 2016, doing so only through politicians and institutional representatives. Only in a very few cases were migrants’ voices given airtime. A new report also finds...

Some 1,100 African migrants stormed the border fence along the Spanish enclave of Ceuta early on New Year's Day, injuring fifty Moroccans and five Spanish border guards. The migrants were attempting to enter Spanish...

Although parents, teachers and child protection professionals have jointly called on MPs during the past weeks not to vote for the restriction of the Child Protection Act, the Hungarian Parliament has passed an amendment of the law.

Halden Prison in Norway is a model for how a prison should be run: prisoners often live in better conditions than they would if they were free.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its concluding observations on the Italian periodic reports. The Committee expressed its concern on the persistency of discrimination towards the...

In Italy, almost 20,000 minors live in formal and informal Roma settlements in conditions of absolute poverty. The report found that a child who is raised in these conditions has almost no possibility to access...