The Bulgarian Parliament has adopted on first reading a controversial new anti-terrorism bill. It will now have a second reading before being sent for the president's signature, after which it would become law....

Italy still doesn't have the crime of torture in its criminal code, despite strong condemnation from courts and human rights activists for the severe abuses that occurred during the Genoa G8.

The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights has judged that the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) should not have rejected a Muslim woman's job application because she refused to give men...

MP Malik Azmani for the Dutch VVD party (Liberals) has recently stated that he thinks that migrants should only receive Dutch citizenship after 10 years. Currently, migrants are eligible after five years. The bar...

The Constitutional Court of Spain has declared that court fees imposed on SMEs in order to start a civil or administrative proceeding are "disproportionate" and that courts can't be funded "upon the sacrifice of a...

The recently proposed bill gives the authorities every opportunity to seriously and arbitrarily restrict the fundamental rights of Bulgarian citizens.

The first hospitality house for LGBTI young adults in Italy welcomes victims of violence who face discrimination and social exclusion.

The first registered civil union in Italy for formalized in Castel San Pietro, near Bologna, on July 24. The lesbian couple is considered the first same-sex couple to enter into a civil partnership in Italy, 50 days...

Half of all Roma in the Czech Republic, the largest ethnic minority in the country, live in social exclusion. According to estimates, 226,300 Roma live in the Czech Republic — about two percent of the country's...

Czech MPs decided not to pass a proposal allowing spontaneous public assemblies (those that are not first reported to authorities). Moreover, the list of those who may announce public assemblies will not be broaden....