An emergency proposal to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers currently in Italy, Greece and Hungary among EU member states was backed by Parliament.

Why is the refugee crisis all over the news? How is this related to Syria? Why should we care at all? Here’s a must-see video about how the refugee crisis came to be, and what is – and is not – being done.

Bavaria has opened a first special camp for asylum seekers from the Balkans, which aims to accelerate their expulsion. Applications for asylum will only get summary reviews and people have extremely limited access to...

Hungary's new anti-migrant laws are part of a wider ambition by Prime Minister Orban to be seen as the savior of Europe, at the expense of human rights and constitutional principles.

A public work of art by Italian artist Davide Dormino is travelling around Europe. Titled Anything to Say?, the work is a life-sized bronze sculpture portraying Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden...

The nominations for the European Parliament's 2015 Sakharov Prize were announced on September 10. The prize is awarded every year to honor exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression.

Despite calls by the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and other human rights organizations for a veto, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev signed into law the new Law on the National Service for Protection....

Dozens of Nigerian women, victims of human trafficking, are detained in an Italian immigrant detention center and threatened with deportation, as local NGOs fight for their release.

Twenty Nigerian women - victims of human trafficking and thus entitled to asylum - are being sent back to Boko Haram’s violence, in spite of the fact they’ve all obtained suspensions of their deportation orders....

Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland will write to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about new anti-migrant laws that took effect yesterday. Secretary Jagland said he was concerned the laws will...