"I can't sit at home, knowing that this is going on out there." Volunteers step up and provide help to refugees coming ashore on the island of Lesbos.

After years of delay, Italy finally has an institutional figure dedicated to the monitoring of prisoners' rights. Mauro Palma, the founder and first president of Associazione Antigone and the former president of the...

A peaceful demonstration under the name "Protest march for human rights: Hijab - my right, my choice" was held this Sunday in Sarajevo. Two thousand people with banners marched through the streets of Sarajevo, warning...

The mass sex assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne should be denounced, but it is also necessary to oppose generalizations of sexual attackers as exclusively young men from North Africa or the Arab area.

Through a newly introduced bill, the government wants to create different measures to further limit the rights of people who have fled to Germany. Among other things, experts strongly criticize the fact that...

On the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (February 6), a group of Lithuanian MPs registered a draft legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation in Lithuania. The drafters aim...

As a result of uniform rules for men and women inmates, the specific needs of women - medical, psychological, educational, occupational and social - are disregarded.

Unless they apply for asylum in Germany or Austria, the refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border will be returned to Greece.

The Italian government has decided not to proceed with the decriminalization of clandestine immigration, despite having been mandated to do so by the Parliament. Eighteen civil society groups - including Medu, Amnesty...

For the first two months of his incarceration, Stefano appeared perfectly fine. During the last week of his life, however, things changed.