Self-regulation on removing online hate speech from social media has not yet borne the fruits IT giants promised, according to new research.

At the end of November, the Movimento Difesa del Cittadino ("Defense of the Citizen Movement") held its IX Congress to celebrate 30 years of hard work. The Congress was an important moment to discuss how to better...

On International Human Rights Day, the new crowdfunding campaign "Good hosts: Let's support young creative people without home!" was presented in Zagreb. The aim is to raise money for people who want to create art, but have no means to do it.

The European Implementation Network (EIN) was formed as a result of worrying findings that European countries that are condemned by the European Court of Human Rights often fail to implement the judgments of the...

The award ceremony for the CILD Award for Civil Liberties reveals the 2016 human rights heroes.

Back in October, three prisoners escaped from Rome's Rebibbia prison. The three men used an old and almost romantic system to accomplish their mission: they cut the bars of the cells and climbed down using some bed...

Following the first legal victory against the censorship of LGBT* content, the court will have to re-examine whether fairy tales with homosexual characters are harmful to minors, or whether they simply promote tolerance for gay people.

The UK government is breaking the law by indiscriminately collecting citizens' internet activity and phone records and giving hundreds of public bodies access to these personal details with no suspicion of serious...

Belarus’s human rights record has caused a sports coalition, the Sports and Rights Alliance, to voice their concern about holding the 2019 European Games in Minsk. In a letter to the European Olympic Committees, they...

The 2016 Régine Orfinger-Karlin Award has been given to a boxing club in Brussels that prevents radicalization by supporting young people from poorer areas.