Human Rights Day will be on December 10. To mark this day, Amnesty International is inviting everyone to write letters for people who have experienced great injustice. Last year, 70,000 letters were written in the...

After the unprecedented "anti-terrorism" raid that took place some days ago, the municipality of Rome closed down the Baobab transit center for refugees on December 6. The center was completely run by volunteers who...

The decision to prevent the publication of the magazine Médor is a serious attack on press freedom and the freedom of expression as protected by European law.

Gay refugees in Amsterdam are given separate shelter after several incidents in the primary reception centers, including spitting, physical threats, and calls that they are a shame to their people. The state secretary...

Imposing stricter refugee entry requirements – allowing passage only for individuals from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq – is a serious blow to human rights and the rule of law.

The Red Cross and VluchtelingenWerk Netherlands (Dutch Council for Refugees) have announced that over 47,000 people have applied as volunteers with these organizations since this summer. The number of registered...

Federica Mogherini, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, did not make a planned visit to Prague. One of the reasons was the fact that some Czech politicians associate Islam and refugees with terrorism,...

The Government Defense Anti-Corruption Index has given Croatia an average grade. According to the Transparency International report, many NATO members and partner countries lack control mechanisms for transparency in...

An innovative campaign against right-wing extremism wins the Politikaward 2015 for political communication in Germany. The idea of the campaign “Rechts gegen Rechts” (Nazis against Nazis) is to make neo-Nazis march...

A hospital employee's termination for insisting on wearing her headscarf at work was not a violation of her rights under the Convention on Human Rights.