Italy has put off dealing with its obligations with regard to torture for way too long, despite the fact that the duty to criminally sanction torture is unequivocally in various international treaties.

"The war on drugs has failed utterly because it went from a war on drugs and dealers to a war on drug users," claims Dainius Pūras, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, who wrote an open letter to Yury...

There is serious concern about the freedom the migration authority is giving itself in determining which asylum seekers to consider and how it handles claims from Afghans.

About 30 countries are taking part in the UNHCR resettlement program. It concerns refugees who can't stay in the country in which they were received, such as single mums, minors, elderly or people in need of urgent...

You always have somewhere to turn to for human rights protection. Even when human rights are not listed in national laws, they are protected by international law.

So far 222 assaults at refugee shelters were registered in Germany for 2015. Their aim was to destroy the shelters or to injure people. There has been a strong rise in the number of assaults from January to November,...

The Committee on Legal Affairs has begun its deliberations regarding the proposal to amend the Constitution to define "family" as marriage between a man and a woman. The proposal, signed by 106 out of 141 members of...

Recently, State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff wrote a letter to all asylum seekers waiting to submit applications, saying that, due to the workload, it may take six months before it's their turn at the Immigration and...

In some Czech hospitals, 40 percent of newborns are being delivered by this method, often for unnecessary reasons.

Since the Paris attacks, fear driven by terror and migration has made Europeans prioritize security over the rule of law. But in our efforts to strengthen security, we must not give up on our own freedoms.