The Dutch liberal party VVD is afraid that judges will be inclined to impose fixed-term prison sentences instead of life imprisonment in order to guarantee detainees the prospect of finite detention and to give...

According to Defence for Children, the Netherlands too easily rejects applications for family reunification. The organization also claims that Dutch legislation on family migration is in breach of international rules.

The Netherlands hardly succeeds in persuading recalcitrant countries to take back asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies in the Netherlands. When the chips are down, other interests, for example economic...

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee calls on governments to expeditiously and completely cease the immigration detention of children based solely on their pending status or that of their parents.

A broad coalition of human rights organizations, including the Belgian League of Human Rights, calls for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.

The Hungarian government wants to further restrict public interest data requests, a last resort of ensuring the state's accountability. A recent bill would disallow anonymity of public interest data requests and...

Antigone launched a hashtag on International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture (June 26) that immediately became among the ten most-tweeted hashtags of the moment. The entire tweet was as follows:...

Spanish organizations met recently with MEPs to inform them of the threats to fundamental rights and freedoms posed by a series of "gag laws" set to take effect in July.

Parents wishing to stay with their children overnight in a Hungarian hospital might need a little bit of luck to do so, despite what the law says. A campaign by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union seeks to change this.

Sap, the Italian trade union of penitentiary police, has publicly demonstrated at the Milan Expo against the introduction of the crime of torture in the Italian penal code. "The crime of torture would hinder the work...