Iceland, Denmark and Austria are the most peaceful countries in the world, according to the Global Peace Index 2016. Four other European states — Portugal, Czechia, Switzerland and Slovenia — are among the top 10,...

A protest against illegal logging in a Czech national park turned violent when police abused an activist before allowing park employees and a logger to do the same.

Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation exposes women to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and violates their human rights, the United Nations human rights committee ruled. The landmark decision is expected...

The Swedish state is guilty of ethnic discrimination, the Stockholm District Court ruled today, June 10. Civil Rights Defenders wins the case and holds the state accountable for the police register of Swedish Roma citizens.

Migrants entering illegally into the EU should not be detained, but instead returned to the countries from which they came, says the Court of Justice.

Research on psychedelic drugs can change our understanding of the human mind. Watch Drugreporter's video report from the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research.

An important international conference at the end of May explored ways to protect the dignity and human rights of detainees.

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to set up an inquiry committee into the Panama Papers revelations, which uncovered detailed information on offshore companies and their ultimate beneficiaries. The committee...

The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is now final: Hungarian law violates the rights of privacy and family life, and therefore the government must change its current regulations. The Strasbourg court...

A fresh Pew Research Center report found that only a slim majority (51 percent) of respondents across 10 member states favored the EU. In five of the six nations surveyed in both last year and this year, it found...