Freedoms are increasingly under pressure worldwide - more than we've seen before in the whole past generation, said Kenneth Roth, the president of Human Rights Watch. "Europe is in panic and has scapegoated refugees,"...

There is still no regulatory body in Lithuania to monitor information that is discriminatory or derogatory on the basis of gender.

A Romanian man went to the European Court of Human Rights after he was dismissed from his job for using work instant messenger for personal conversations. The court found in Bărbulescu v. Romania that employers have...

An inhabitant of Oss may continue to rent his late mother’s caravan plot, a decision that puts aside the "extinction policy" of mobile home sites in the area.

The post-9/11 era has brought on a monstrous level of hyper-surveillance and social control, which is strengthened every day by governments that legislate to this end.

Workers from Slovakia, Romania and Vietnam were forced to toil for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no pay.

The Dutch hotline for Internet discrimination MiND received twice as many reports in 2015 as it did in 2014. Most reports related to discrimination based on race (44 percent) and religion (22 percent). More than half...

There are only three women ministers in the newly elected Croatian government. With only three women confirmed in the Sabor (Croatian Parliament), Croatia does not follow the example of developed European countries...

Unknown assailants smashed the windows of the Human Rights and Democracy House in Belgrade. Human Rights House reminds the Serbian public that the violence in society is getting more intense and that the targets so...

A 34-year-old man from Eindhoven has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for human trafficking. He severely abused three women in 2009 and 2010. He made a Dutch woman work in the sex industry and took her...