Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt visits refugees and urges more to be done to help those trapped by international borders.

Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands are in the top 5 of the Rule of Law Index, which compares the quality of the administration of justice of 113 countries. The Netherlands finished first in access to...

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders was brought to court 18 month after he led a chant at a rally calling for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands. The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party is being accused of racial...

Liberties partner Associazione Antigone has organized another sit-in in front of the Italian Parliament to demand the introduction of the crime of torture in the country's penal code.

The chairman of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, the largest organization for the protection of human rights in Bulgaria, was attacked yesterday morning around 9:30 am by two unknown men in front of the Radisson hotel in Sofia.

Liberties partner the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee wrote an open letter to the Bulgarian ombudsman, asking her to approach the Constitutional Court regarding the country's ban on garments that entirely or partially conceal the face.

The encryption practices of chat app companies are inadequate and need to be enhanced, according to a study by Amnesty International. The human rights organization ranked the companies on encryption measures including...

"I just want to live in peace." A Syrian refugee who escaped the war has found a new home and family in Austria. Watch and share this heartwarming video from the UNHCR.

Poland’s government has rejected the European Commission's requests to address the crisis surrounding the country's Constitutional Court. Prime Minister Beata Szydło said Thursday that her government would not...

Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar have won the 2016 Sakharov Prize, the top European human rights award. The two survivors of sexual enslavement by the Islamic State represent the suffering of thousands of...