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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

"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...