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...

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.

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...

InGalera (InPrison) is a really special restaurant, offering its customers the unique experience of having a gourmet dinner behind bars. InGalera is indeed based in the Milan's Bollate penitentiary - long known as an...

In a sad day for equal rights, the Italian State Council confirmed the cancellation of all transcriptions for same-sex marriages officiated abroad, which will therefore be invalid. Without a law on gay unions - which...

Two attorneys will report against the Dutch state for human trafficking. Their suit will go ahead when the Netherlands executes a European agreement on the reallocation of refugees, according to the attorneys,...

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...

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