Local authorities around Poland are often involved in publishing newspapers with commercial ad columns. Such activity raises doubts about its compatibility with many parts of the Constitution. Local authorities, by...

Marco Pannella, founder and leader of Italy's Radical Party, entered into a long series of battles for the recognition of civil and political rights in Italy, starting in the 1970s, with the referendum on divorce and...

Although a historic step for LGBTI rights in Italy, the new civil unions law is being strongly criticized for not including critical elements such as stepchild adoption rights.

Italy was the last western country to finally approve civil unions for homosexual couples in Europe. The bill itself does not give adoption rights to LGBTI people and lacks other essential clauses, but it is still the...

The UN committee against racial discrimination finds many shortcomings in Spain's effort to fight racism and discrimination. Here are some of the main issues.

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament rejected on May 17 the draft constitutional amendments aiming to introduce the definition of a family as heterosexual marriage and parenthood only. The fate of...

The special services coordinator of Poland's Internal Security Agency has said that the previous government allegedly kept over 50 journalists under surveillance. In response, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights...

The non-transparent way in which new media regulations were prepared has been heavily criticized by civil society organizations and concerned citizens.

Ignoring the recent European Court of Human Rights judgment in Vasiliauskas v. Lithuania, the Supreme Court of Lithuania upholds a genocide conviction in a case with roots stretching back to the 1950s.

One day after the approval of the civil unions bill in Italy, right-wing politicians announced that they want to raise the 500,000 signatures required to force a referendum to overturn the bill. Other opponents are...