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Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has come out in support of a ban on the wearing of full-faced veils in the country "wherever it is legally possible." Speaking at a meeting of her CDU party, she backed a burqa ban...
Today there are fewer than 50 days left of the Obama presidency. Will he grant a pardon to Edward Snowden as one of his last acts?
European policing agency Europol has agreed to investigate what is believed to be the biggest loss of a migrant boat in 2016. The decision comes after a months-long investigation by the BBC and Reuters to uncover the...
Crime suspects with special needs, such as people with cognitive impairment or dyslexia, are not properly identified by Swedish authorities and may not understand the legal proceedings they go through.
Journalists around the world are facing retaliation for reporting on the Panama Papers scandal. The corruption reaches so deep that it is causing the parent company of one major Spanish paper, El Pais, to sue another...
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The Belgian League of Human Rights has published a pocket-sized guide for migrants that contains information about relevant state institutions, asylum procedures, education, housing and much more.
The House has given the state secretary for health, welfare and sport until December 15 to present an amended proposal that is in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The Constitutional Court of Romania has postponed for the fourth time its decision in a gay marriage case, this time to await advice from the European Court of Justice. The case was brought by a gay couple that got...
Civil Rights Defenders and the National Association for Social and Mental Health work with human rights and the situation in closed institutions. We expose shortcomings and contribute to the guarantee of respect for individuals' human rights.
Repubblica and Antigone’s journey into Italian prisons continues with a new episode on university education in prison. “The average recidivism rate is unfortunately around 70 percent, while among those who have the...
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