The 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council launched this week. In his opening speech, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated, "When governments clamp down against grassroots activists [...] or scrap the...
A day before Orbán's announcement that the Hungarian government is planning a referendum on the EU's refugee quotas, skinheads blocked the entrance to the National Elections Office, preventing an opposition politician from submitting his own question.
The judges at the Central Appeals Court warn of legal inequality, destruction of knowledge and higher costs if their body is to be closed. The government's plan to close this court will have a "disastrous" impact on...
According to the proposal on refugee relocation in the EU, Poland is to accept a maximum of 400 people from Greece and Italy in 2016.
The Rotterdam philanthropic foundation De Verre Bergen (The Faraway Mountains) has bought a hundred houses in the last couple of months in order to house Syrian families with a residence permit. The foundation also...
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A student's application for a traineeship with an agrarian wholesale business in the Frisian town of Drachten was rejected after he told the employer he was gay. Arguing from the Bible and her Christian conviction,...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced last Wednesday that the Hungarian government would hold a public referendum on resettlement quotas in order to prevent the European Union from relocating refugees to Hungary...
The number of directly elected women is the lowest since 2000, but state attorneys say they will take no action to attempt to enforce a quota.
The Dutch cabinet is not going to ban Salafist organizations, nor will there be new legislation to tackle intolerance and the preaching of hate within Salafist movements. The present legal instruments are sufficient....
As a result of the campaign #FragDenBundestag launched by the organizations FragDenStaat and Abgeordnetenwatch, the Bundestag has started to publish reports prepared by its scientific service on its website, such as...
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