What is life like for minors and young adults in Italian juvenile detention centers? Educational and extracurricular opportunities exist, but many centers still look and feel like adult prisons.

Politicians must accept that Romanian hospitals cannot cope with the number of injured from the fire at the Colectiv nightclub and seek immediate help from the European community.

Victor Ponta’s government, in power for over three years in Romania, resigned last Wednesday. The prime minister’s resignation comes amid the most widespread protests in the past 25 years in Romania. More than 25,000...

You must be daring to quip about politicians in Hungary these days: journalists, bloggers and ordinary people have been brought to court for such deeds.

After a fire at a nightclub in Bucharest leaves dozens dead, 70,000 people take to the streets of cities across Romania to protest against the corruption of political elites.

Hossam Bahgat, a journalist and founder of human rights group Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, received a summons from Military Intelligence on November 5. The charges represent yet another attempt by the...

The number of failed asylum seekers leaving the Netherlands should increase, says State Secretary for Security and Justice Klaas Dijkhoff. It is known for less than 50 percent of rejected asylum seekers whether they...

Children in youth care too often don't receive the appropriate care, or it comes too late. This is because municipalities and youth care organizations are too concerned with their own interests and too little with the...

You have certain human rights, but do you know what they are, or where the idea of human rights comes from? Here's the first in a series on understanding your rights.

For the first time in the history of Baltic Pride in Vilnius, its organizers, the Lithuanian Gay League (an LGBT rights organization) met no opposition from the city's officials. LGL, which previously had to fight...