A climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and the private sector are the biggest challenges to media freedom today, claims Reporters Without Borders in its World...

In a 256-page exhortation, the Pope summarized the Vatican's views on issues including sexuality, marriage, parenting and divorce.

The announced price increase will place additional stress on the elderly, one of the most vulnerable groups of Croatian society, and negatively impact their already threatened quality of life.

Persecuted, violated and rejected on the basis of their sexual orientation, LGBT migrants need stronger support and appropriate assistance to live a normal life.

Many Romanians are unaware that the national ombudsperson can protect their constitutional rights, but a new project by local NGOs aims to inform citizens and encourage them to seek help when needed.

The founder of Germany's anti-Islamist Pegida movement, Lutz Bachmann, faces hate speech charges at a court in the city of Dresden. Bachmann, in Pegida's Facebook posts, called refugees "cattle" and "filth," inciting...

Civil society leaders are quick to refute the statement of an Italian prosecutor that young inmates are poised to become terrorists.

A new report by Doctors Without Borders, titled "Fuori Campo," reveals that 10,000 refugees and asylum seekers – men, women and children – are living outside the reception system in Italy, without any institutional...

Large public spaces were closed during the state visit in order to discourage protests against China's deplorable human rights record, especially in Tibet.

The Strasbourg court upholds the freedom of speech of tabloids after they published a story suggesting the Prince of Monaco had fathered a child out of wedlock.