After a whole year of work and dozens of hearings, the committee in charge of drafting a sort of constitution for web navigation has presented its document to the Italian Parliament. The third article of the draft...

In a new report, the Human Rights Council of the UN sharply criticizes recent measures taken by the Spanish government. The conclusions reflect many of the concerns voiced by Rights International Spain.

Antigone, the Italian NGO that runs a national observatory on prison conditions, has presented the results of the first six months of monitoring work for 2015. Prisoner numbers are decreasing and the problem of...

"The loop" was an administrative procedure that allows the state to rectify, retroactively, errors and omissions without interrupting the major work. It was a useful tool in theory, but in practice, the loop was used...

Belgium joins the long list of member states that have seen successful national challenges to data retention laws based on an EU directive that has itself been invalidated.

Supporters of same-sex partnerships in Lithuania hope a historic Strasbourg decision will help push Lithuania to join the many EU countries that give this legal protection to same-sex couples.

A law approved in 2014 calls for Italy's six judicial psychiatric hospitals to be closed before March 31, 2015, and turned into several small healthcare facilities. But the bill has not been followed and these...

Activists for the Croatian NGO handed out a manifesto to ministers ahead of a government session last month. In the paper, the organization protests against an August military parade to mark the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm.

More than 40 associations and NGOs have called on Germany to overcome its blockade against the new Equal Treatment Directive. The planned directive aims to protect against discrimination based...

The citizens of Rome are volunteering every day to welcome migrants at the Baobab Cultural Center — an astonishing example of solidarity.