You know the picture. Italian photographer Massimo Sestini took it while hanging out from an helicopter and ultimately ended up winning a World Press Photo Award for it: it depicts a boat overcrowded with refugees...
The campaign to condemn rape called "Vergewaltigung verurteilen! Nein heißt nein!" (Condemn rape! No means no!) concluded by handing out over 62,000 postcards to the Federal Ministry of Justice. A coalition of women's...
Minister Ard van der Steur and State Secretary for Security and Justice Klaas Dijkhoff want to raise the prison sentence for human traffickers in order to deal more firmly with human trafficking. The maximum penalty...
An agreement on the bed, bath and bread arrangement for asylum seekers has been postponed. State Secretary Klass Dijkhoff told Parliament he wants to wait for the rulings of the Council of State and the Central...
Italy still lags behind most European countries when it comes to LGBTI rights, which means that same-sex couples and families basically find no recognition and protection from the law. For this reason, the fact that a...
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Voters will answer the following question on April 6: "Are you for or against the law on the approval of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine?" The definition of the referendum question is a sensitive...
Italy is one of the few countries in Europe where there are no provisions whatsoever concerning detainees' right to affectivity. If you happen to get jailed, you are just supposed to give up the very thought of having...
Europe is facing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, and the question of what can be done to properly face this humanitarian emergency can no longer be ignored. This is the fundamental position of our...
On the eve of parliamentary elections, the group Platform 112, a coalition of 70 NGOs dedicated to the protection of human rights and democratization, invites the leading political parties to issue their statements...
A Belgian minister's plan to prohibit taking pictures of the police would be a return to censorship and a terrible message at a time of ongoing police abuses against the media.
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