A website making it easier for women to acquire senior managerial posts in businesses has been opened by Minister for Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker. On the website one can view which vacancies will...

The government's political agenda to stigmatize government critics, especially human rights organizations, has been strongly denounced by a UN expert.

Sharp criticism has been directed at European politicians by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev. Current refugee policy is a big mistake, Medvedev said in an interview with the American magazine TIME. "The...

Despite the many EU measures aimed at slowing the pace of refugees’ arrival to Europe, migration cannot be stopped. It's time for member states to stop denying reality.

The Administrative Court in Burgas will reconsider on March 2 the appeal of Zahra Shahsvani, who escaped from Iran and wants to permanently live in Bulgaria. She is afraid of going back to Iran as she recently adopted...

The committee that examined to what extent giving help with euthanasia to people without medical complaints - yet consider their lives completed - should remain punishable, sees no urge for an amendment. The...

Specially trained inspectors who will penalize unequal pay for women and men for the same work will begin visiting Czech companies. Ombudsman Anna Šabatová urged the inspector general of labor about this. "Unequal pay...

A new package of legislative reforms in Bulgaria focuses on children's court hearings, interrogations of victims of violent crime, the introduction of restorative justice and mediation in criminal proceedings, as well...

The joint visit by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights and the national ombudsman on January 14 to the emergency shelter for asylum seekers in Heumensoord, near Nijmegen, found that mass sheltering in pavilions...

There is no need in a democratic society to suppress the book, a court says, noting that it is anyway widely available in libraries and online.