African asylum seeker Oury Jalloh was burned alive inside a police cell in Dessau in 2005. A private initiative has since been fighting to uncover the truth behind his death. According to official accounts, he set...

The "Sexist Piggy" is an annual competition for the most sexist advertising. It focuses mainly on advertisements in public space. The contest, organized by Czech NGO Nesehnutí, is based on nominations from the public,...

The cabinet had appealed the first court's decision in the eavesdropping case filed by law firm Prakken d'Oliveira. The General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) had been tapping calls between the firm's...

The Supreme Court of Hungary has issued a judgment that local governments are not allowed to make decisions forcing certain groups to leave a municipality or creating difficulties for their settlement there. The...

Asylum seekers who have been around in the Netherlands for a while and have a fair chance of a temporary residence permit may receive language education. With this, State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff complies with...

Shouldn't pay be based on work, not gender? Despite the EU’s 2006 directive on equality between men and women in the labor market, differences in their pay persist.

According to a European Commission survey on the level of discrimination in EU countries, published in October, the Czech Republic is one of the least tolerant countries towards national minorities, foreigners, sexual...

Raif Badawi is the winner of the 2015 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The blogger from Saudi Arabia is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for insulting Islam.

School radicalization screenings and applications that collect users' data were awarded prizes during this year's Big Brother Awards.

The Belgian interior minister has proposed that incoming refugees be given "badges" with the person's photograph, name and address of the reception center where he or she lives. The initiative, proposed in order to...