In a sweeping victory for Dutch environmental activists, The Hague District Court ordered the government on June 24 to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by 2020 to help fight global warming.

The United Protestant Church of Belgium has decided not to consider homosexuality as an obstacle to becoming a pastor. This sign of openness and respect comes less than a month after the decision of the synod of the...

A video showing Bulgarian police officers arresting and beating a man on a busy street is circulating on social media, as civil society urges prosecutors for a full and impartial investigation.

Freedom House published this year's evaluation examining post-socialist countries on Tuesday. The report, Nations in Transit 2015, reclassifies Hungary from the category "Consolidated Democracies" to...

On the occasion of World Refugee Day (June 20), the Belgian League of Human Rights (LDH) conducted a civil disobedience action against closed detention centers. Four activists chained themselves to a drum filled with...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership represents a major social, environmental and democratic issue—and danger.

The Hungarian government will erect a 175-kilometer-long fence along its southern border with Serbia in an effort to prevent refugees from entering Hungary. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union claims the fence...

The number of people in the Netherlands awarded damages because of unjustified detention increases every year, and judges in the country tend to place suspects in pre-trial detention too quickly.

According to the Slovak government, the excessive number of Roma in "special schools" is due to a higher rate of inbreeding in their families, which leads to developmental disorders. This was in response to the EC...

The abuse of two refugees by a German police officer is still under investigation, but the silence of fellow officers brings forth questions about the culture of the police force and a call for their prosecution.