Macedonian police used tear gas on hundreds of refugees, most of them from Pakistan, who tried to enter Macedonia from Greece last week.

Two inmates in an Italian prison were thrown into solitary confinement, stripped of their clothes, denied food and sleep, and beaten.

Women's and human rights organizations in Germany have formed the CEDAW-Alliance in order to compile a shadow report until 2017 about the implementation of the UN Women's Rights Convention (Convention on the...

The reform to access to justice in Belgium provides worrying measures, including: abolition of the irrebuttable presumption of the state of need; more controls; and reduced remuneration of pro-bono lawyers. It is...

Criminal prosecution against 1,600 Facebook users will need to be initiated if the Hungarian Prosecutor's Office is to be consistent in implementing decisions. It all erupted when a post by an anonymous user made...

A Polish man who accuses his therapist of rape has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for redress after Polish courts did not consider his testimony reliable.

A Dutch court imposes a thirty-year prison sentence for murder because it finds the practice of life imprisonment in the Netherlands at odds with the Convention on Human Rights.

New asylum laws have been in force in Germany since the end of October. The new regulations should help speed up the asylum process, but serious human rights issues, including overcrowding in temporary shelters, persist.

The Dutch Council of State has decided that State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff may impose conditions to the sheltering of people without a residence permit. It may be expected that they cooperate in their own departure in...

Next year will be a crucial year for the issues of anti-corruption and transparency in Italy. For this reason, Transparency International Italia, the Italian branch of the biggest global NGO committed to...