A report by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights shows that, even though many Dutch consider human rights an essential issue, over 40 percent of the population isn't able to mention a single human right....

Most people who want to move on to Western Europe are being taken to Greek refugee camps. No one is left in the temporary camp. Two people died during the past week protesting against the conditions.

Davide Dormino's sculpture “Anything to say?” symbolizes the courage of whistleblowers and all those who fight to defend freedom of expression and information throughout the world.

By a vote of 327-293, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on the European Commission "to initiate immediately an in-depth monitoring process concerning the situation of democracy, the rule of law and...

The Dutch Labour Party argues that companies must be obliged to make their buildings accessible to people with disabilities. The recent completion of the Dutch implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of...

Cuts in social benefits are supposed to eliminate "wrong incentives," but human rights experts say the assumption that these wrong incentives are mobilizing people is untenable.

Activists are arrested and questioned for spray-painting the message "Open the borders for all" on a rooftop in Zagreb, a city where graffiti featuring Nazi symbols and hate speech abounds.

The EU should realize that its economic policies continue to cultivate the same "economic refugees" it is so eager to get rid of.

The German Constitutional Court has scheduled a three-day trial for March 2016, when it will hear the case to ban the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party and its associated organizations. Obstacles for...

Great inequality exists in the way youth care is implemented. At the start of 2015, youth care was shifted from the provinces to the local authorities who, Children's Ombudsman Marc Dullaert says, address the aid...