A Hungarian court acknowledges discrimination by the police against Roma citizens in the town of Gyöngyöspata, northeast of Budapest.

More than 20,000 people marched through the streets of Brussels to support the reception of refugees and the respect of their human rights.

The Bollate prison in Milan is considered an example of correctional good practices, where detainees are treated with humanity and rehabilitated through study, work and music (some also participate in Antigone's radio...

Public-authority primary schools in the Dutch city of Utrecht will be celebrating St. Nicholas Day without Black Pete from now on. There will be no more room for Black Pete or other hurtful, negative stereotyping in...

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHERC) has endorsed calls for a referendum on abortion to address the country's "highly restrictive" laws on sexual and reproductive health. The IHERC said it supported...

The Council of Europe's anti-torture delegation has published the report of its summer visit to Romania. Its findings: prisons remain overcrowded, unsanitary, and without natural light or ventilation.

The Italian judicial psychiatric hospitals (OPGs) should have all closed down months ago. They didn't, though, and this is why over a hundred people detained in OPGs have filed petitions to denounce their illegitimate...

Two years have passed from the tragic Lampedusa shipwreck stunned the world. Today more than ever, it is important to remember why we need to protect people, not borders.

A polish journalist's defamation conviction was wrongly imposed and violated his freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has made public its decision (Views) in a housing defense case against Spain. In the case, the individual involved had failed to submit several mortgage...