On the occasion of Roma Day on April 8, 2016, a broad alliance of German NGOs is calling for solidarity with Europe’s Sinti and Roma. Due to centuries of prejudice, Roma and Sinti — Europe's largest minority — are...

Considering the sentences already imposed by the court in other cases for crimes committed in Sarajevo and elsewhere, victims of Karadžić's war crimes were expecting a life sentence.

Civil society organizations are demanding an explanation from authorities after a popular political satire program — shown on a channel partly funded by citizens — was canceled.

Sniffer dogs, arrests, and lasting trauma: recent drug raids on Italian high schools are just more evidence of the failure of the war on drugs and the country's "zero tolerance" policy.

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Nils Muiznieks, just published his report "Missing persons and victims of forced disappearance in Europe." One of the countries the commissioner expresses concern...

A second Dutch political party, VVD, has joined the PvdA proposal to assess whether prisoners with life sentences could receive pardons after 25 years. Both PvdA and VVD believe the life sentence in danger, as judges...

The flow of migrants from North Africa has not stopped. On a single day – Tuesday, March 29 – the Italian coast guard rescued 1,569 migrants. Official figures show that in the first three months of 2016, more than...

A Czech court has issued a landmark judgment in the case of a boy with autism who was refused by his local school and another 14 schools in the area. The court ruled that the municipality was guilty of discrimination...

New amendments to the Act on Gender Equality were proposed last month on the initiative of the Ministry of Social Policy and Youth. The proposed act itself has been the subject of public debate for a month now. The...

The directive is full of broad offenses and threatens people's freedoms of movement and expression, says a group of experts in European law.