The breaking down of the international humanitarian system for refugees is a real threat now, the UN refugee agency's special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt warned.

As a result of a forced eviction, 500 Roma people, including pregnant women, elderly, ill people and children, have been thrown out into the streets of Rome. This move of the local authorities is a clear violation of...

Having been held as prisoners on the island of Lampedusa for months now, a number of refugees started a hunger strike to demand to be enabled to leave the island. Besides the desperate living conditions in the...

The recent repeal of part of Italy's overly harsh 2006 law on drug use is an encouraging sign that change is happening, albeit slowly.

Between 2002 and 2015, Rome invested 27 million euros into improving the education of Roma children, but a new report says the results are unsatisfactory.

The Dutch state secretary for security and justice recently denied two asylum requests by Albanian nationals, because Albania is considered to be a "safe country." In addition, the applicants had not proven that their...

Representatives of NGOs met with the members of the Venice Commission who are preparing an opinion on the new Police Act and other Polish legal amendments. Representatives of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights...

Around 200 journalists protested in front of the Croatian Ministry of Culture because of violations of the freedom of the press. They demanded the resignation of Minister of Culture Zlatko Hasanbegović and laid their...

The Italian Senate in February approved the much-discussed and anticipated civil unions bill. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi then called a confidence vote in order to speed up the passage of the bill, which has...

The Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC) published its latest annual Pink report, the overview of LGBTI human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period from January 2015 to the end of March 2016. Compared to 2014, last...