Leaders from eight EU member states plus Serbia, Macedonia and Albania held a summit meeting in Brussels on Sunday where a 17-point action plan was agreed on. All heads of governments agreed to refrain from pushing...

In a letter that, upon request of the Parliament, will from now be handed to asylum seekers upon their arrival, State Secretary Dijkhoff paints a picture of the course of events in emergency shelters: sleeping in...

A new, independent medical inquiry by Doctors for Human Rights - Italy (MEDU), with the support of the Open Society Foundations, sheds new light on the case of Stefano Cucchi. The report — which was presented on...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany has ruled that participants of demonstrations are allowed to produce video and images of the police without automatically having to fear identity verification. In the case...

The new e-learning platform "Be ribų" offers the first free course on domestic violence for all who encounter it in their line of work.

In the last year over 10,000 children in Bulgaria have been affected by the 60-year-old Juvenile Delinquency Act.

The United Nations is accusing Czech authorities of "systematic human rights violations" in its treatment of refugees and migrants. The UN human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said the Czech Republic was holding...

Eight prison guards are under investigation for the severe beating of an inmate in the Parma prison in 2010 and 2011.

Figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) show that almost two-thirds of the Dutch population have little or no confidence in Parliament. About 36 percent of respondents have a good feeling with the European Union. In...

The Bulgarian Parliament is expected to adopt a gender equality law by the end of October. Its aim is to ensure balanced representation of men and women in power and decision making as well as in every area of life....