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...

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.

The state is being brought to court over an ethnic register of 4,700 Roma set up by the Skåne Police. This week marks the beginning of the main hearing in the District Court of Stockholm.

Around 300 deminers from all over Croatia gathered at Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb in order to warn about alarming working conditions. The protest was organized because many deminers have lost their jobs, and those...

Association Arcigay has published its report on IDAHOT 2016, which contains 104 incidents regarding homo/transphobia in Italy from May 17, 2015 to May 17, 2016. The report is based on journalists' sources and it...

Sixty non-governmental organizations in Lithuania appealed to the minister of education, urging for the introduction of science-based sex education in schools. Organizations reacted to the upcoming program for...

Bewar, from Iraq, has been living in the Calais "Jungle" until very recently, when he and others were bused to a reception center near Marseille. He is happy to finally leave, but uncertainty awaits.

The need to implement effective public surveillance of private care centers for the disabled, chronically ill and elderly in Poland was highlighted by recent cases of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Some...

Extended detention periods for detainees and a lack of respect for the rights of the indigenous Sami people are chief criticisms of Sweden’s human situation.

The mother only wished for a safe, worry-free birth, but instead went through a delivery that left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.