The German minister for family affairs has inaugurated a monitoring body for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as part of the German Institute for Human Rights. The office will verify to what extent the...

Although Hungary has closed its borders, Hungarian volunteers continue to provide help to refugees in Serbia and Croatia.

Roberto Saviano, an investigative journalist and best-selling author, recently denounced the conditions of Italian prisons in a moving editorial in the major newspaper La Repubblica. "If prisons really give the...

The only alternative for refugees escaping the insecurity of war is insecurity inside European borders. Participants of the 8th Solidarity March say this must change immediately.

Fifteen years have passed since the dramatic days of the Genoa G8, and many judgments have already been rendered on the atrocious events that occurred during the raid at the Diaz school and in the following days at...

During a recent session of the Italian Council of Ministers, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano managed to impose his position on a very delicate issue: the list of crimes to be decriminalized in the context of the...

The anti-Islam movement Pegida is only allowed to demonstrate at a fixed location in Rotterdam. The local authorities do not want a march through the city streets, because it may have too many consequences for public...

She was given an anesthetic she explicitly refused and separated from her baby immediately after birth, and later discovered that the signature on the informed consent form was not hers.

The Dutch Cabinet has announced the creation of a joint team of the Public Prosecution Department, the police and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. It will deal with extensive international investigations into human...

As voices across Europe condemn in the strongest terms the attacks in Paris that killed more than 120 people, we must remember that more anti-terror laws will not make us - or our rights - any more secure.