The ball is firmly in Parliament's court: will MPs give journalists the freedom to fully and effectively report on events in the Polish legislature?

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik returns to court this week as the government appeals a ruling that his isolation in prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. Breivik, who killed 77 people...

The human rights organization Liberty has launched a legal challenge in a bid to derail the UK government's recently passed Investigatory Powers Act, often referred to as the "Snooper's Charter." Liberty wants to...

In this new episode of "Prisons of Italy" we explore the world of working and training in prison. Some detainees work for the penitentiary administration, others are volunteers and still others participate to...

Boban Stojanovic and his partner Adam Puskar, two leading figures of the Belgrade Pride Organization and LGBT activists, were forced into exile in fear for their lives.

A cross-party group of UK MPs say migrants should learn English before coming to the UK, or attend language classes when they arrive. "The key to full participation in our society and economy" is to speak English, the...

The lower house of Poland's Parliament has adopted a law that limits pensions of officers that served in the Communist secret police, even though they were positively vetted in 1990. The bill specifies that the amount...

A new plan drafted by Austria's defense minister would revamp the European Union’s migrant policy by establishing a ceiling for migration and only permitting applications for asylum from outside the EU. Hans Peter...

Poland's Parliament has adopted an amendment to the Law on Assemblies that gives preference to assemblies organized by state and religious institutions.

Ten NGOs are urging the European Parliament in an open letter to oppose Commissioner Günter Oettinger’s appointment as the EC’s head of human resources. They cite a series of sexist, racist and homophobic remarks he...