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...

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.

The head of the Czech far-right group Block against Islam, Martin Konvicka, is accused of inciting hatred against Muslims in his Facebook posts. He faces the official charge of inciting hatred against a group of...

The national security service has been ordered to hand over statistics it claimed was classified after a court's decision that the information does not compromise state secrets.

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...

State Secretary for Security and Justice Klaas Dijkhoff wants a tougher approach to criminal refugees. Asylum seekers breaking the law will lose their residence permit sooner. Currently, a convicted asylum seeker...