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 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...

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 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...

A car chase to catch cigarette smugglers ended when border guards shot dead an eighteen-year-old, provoking a storm of public debate regarding the use of force in Lithuania.

Court witnesses and crime victims will receive emotional support during judicial proceedings. Trained volunteers will focus on creating more supportive and comfortable environment in courthouses. "We took the idea...

As the European Commission points out the failure of Belgium to respect the right to asylum — a failure shared by many other EU member states at the moment — Bart De Wever, the president of the nationalist party New...