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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...
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.
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...
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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.
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...
A month after the refugee camp in Ponte Mammolo (near Rome) was demolished by bulldozers, the former occupants, now living in tents near the metro station, wrote a letter to the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, to stop...
With their action "The Arrival," the German artist collective Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für politische Schönheit) will transfer the bodies of dead refugees from the borders of the European Union to Germany....
A 55-year-old Italian man has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for cultivating five marijuana plants to use to help treat his epilepsy. His neurologist had supported the decision to use therapeutic...
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