In cities across Poland last Monday, women (and men) protested against a draft law that would introduce a complete ban on abortion.

The disturbing stories from inside psychiatric hospitals in the Czech Republic should convince the government to set up a special supervisory body.

Can Dündar and fellow defenders of freedom of thought and expression in Turkey, the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzemilev, the Yazidi survivors and public advocates Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar are this...

Facebook has won the "Big Brother" Award in Belgium. The award is given to the "biggest privacy offender of the year," according to the Flemish League for Human rights, which runs the awards. Facebook, nominated by...

About 10,000 reports of discrimination were reported to police and anti-discrimination institutions last year. This is a decrease of four and eleven percent, respectively, compared to 2014. The Netherlands Institute...

Children from orphanages in Lithuania are invited to "ŽvejOK" ("Go Fish") every year on October 1. The initiative aims to introduce them to amateur fishing and give them the opportunity to learn alongside...

Police identified and removed many migrants from the Baobab Center for the second time this year. The latest raid was carried out with the approval of the City Council.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has been litigating the Office of the Prime Minister for two years now to discover who ordered the 2014 "exceptional investigation" into civil organizations supported from the Norwegian NGO Funds in Hungary.

A solidarity action supporting Polish women against the government's initiative to completely ban abortions took place in Vilnius on October 3. At present, abortion is illegal in Poland except in cases of rape or...

Bulgaria's Parliament has approved a nationwide law banning the wearing of face-covering veils from most public places. The legislation was pushed by the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition. Under the new law, the...