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...

A Warsaw court has issued a ruling regarding the boycott of a well-known beer, saying that spilling the beer in streets and a Warsaw café's decision to stop selling it cannot be considered part of an ideological...

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.

The spread of the initiative seeking truth and justice for Giulio Regeni shows that Italians will not let the young researcher's torture and murder go unpunished.

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.

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...

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.

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 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...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), based in Washington, D.C., filed a third-party intervention with the European Court of Human Rights in a case about mass surveillance and transatlantic co-operation...