For the first time since the so-called Hartz-IV reforms of the welfare system were introduced, Germany's Constitutional Court will deal with the question of whether the state has the right to partly withhold social...

For the first time ever, an NGO-initiated international conference, organized together with Ministry of Health, the parliamentary Committee on Health Affairs and the Philosophy Department of Vilnius University, took place in Lithuania.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against Internet and mobile service provider Telenor in an attempt to have the Constitutional Court annul an unlawful act that allows for the retention of...

There are thousands of transgender children in the Netherlands. They are children who, for instance, feel like a boy but have a girl's body, and vice versa. They want to go to school and practice sports like everyone...

The Dutch government should take human rights seriously and not take action only after it's been reproached by a judge. This is the opinion of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights in its Annual Status Report 2014.

The Dutch Senate has so many questions about the legislative proposal concerning electronic health records, that it's questionable whether it will vote in favor of it.

At the end of May, the Dutch minister of foreign affairs presented the "Annual Statement 2014 on the Legal Representation to the Court of Justice of the European Union." This annual statement reports on the...

Seventeen civil unions have been registered in the city of Rome during a celebration of this right, which was voted through by the city council last January. Some of these unions were between members of the same sex....

In 2006, socially excluded localities in the Czech Republic were inhabited by 60-80,000 people, but presently there are 95-115,000 people living in these communities. Ghettos have appeared in all regions. The economic...

The Hungarian government has failed to reach a satisfactory agreement on compensation with nine disenfranchised churches, leaving the matter to the European Court of Human Rights to decide.