Declaring a public health emergency, experts warned that the recent steep rise in deaths from illegal substances in England and Wales is likely to continue unless drastic action is taken to fix failed drug policy. In...

An activist of the organization No Somos Delito ("We Are Not a Crime") was fined after participating in December 2014 in one of the largest demonstrations against Spain's controversial "gag law." The activist is...

More than 1,200 police in France have begun an operation to clear the migrant camp in Calais, where some 7,000 migrants live. Concern exists that some migrants will refuse to go because they still want to get to...

Liberties partner the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee has issued a report to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe that found no positive changes in Bulgaria's penitentiary system.

A long-awaited Court of Justice of the European Union ruling states that personal dynamic IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are personal data under EU law. The CJEU ruling says that personal IPs can't be stored unless...

This new film explains how the European Court of Human Rights works, describes the challenges it faces and shows the scope of its activity through examples from case law.

According to the Ministry of Health, for the first time, more people have registered that they do not want to donate organs than people who do. Of almost 31,844 new registrations during Donor Week, 83 percent wanted...

A conference organized by Atletico Diritti, Antigone and Progetto Diritti highlights discrimination in the process to register a team with the Italian Football Federation.

​As extremism and intolerance rise in Europe and across the world, the international community must redouble its efforts to protect the human rights of all people, the United Nations General Assembly was told.

Getting statistics from all maternity hospitals in the Czech Republic on number of births, caesarean sections, and women injured during labor proves quite difficult. One mother has been trying for two years.