The European Commission should "try to get all member states in the EU to unreservedly accept same-sex marriage as other marriages," First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans said recently at a...

A symbolic protest action was held in Zagreb on June 20 to mark World Refugee Day. The event included a tribute to the many thousands of refugees who have died trying to reach Europe and a call for more scrutiny of the EU's migration policies.

Forum Menschenrechte, a network of more than 50 human rights organizations in Germany, has used the occasion of the EU summits on refugees to criticize the EU’s policy of turning refugees away. The network calls on...

To mark International Day of Action for Women's Health, two Bulgarian NGOs drew attention to the violence perpetrated by healthcare professionals against laboring women.

Germany is planning to pass a law this year allowing telecommunications data retention. Numerous critics deem this legislative proposal unconstitutional and fear extensive digital surveillance.

The Czech health minister plans to establish a register of the mentally ill, a populist step that does not help anyone, according to doctors and lawyers.

Italian Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando had recently appointed Adriano Sofri as an expert to help reform Italy's prisons. In 1990, Sofri was found guilty of ordering the 1972 murder of police officer Luigi...

After years of legal proceedings against the storage of fingerprints under the Passport Act — one of the gravest privacy violations in the Netherlands — Privacy First and 19 co-plaintiffs were declared inadmissible by the Dutch Supreme Court.

Sofia Pride is the biggest annual event dedicated to the human rights of all citizens and the biggest event increasing the visibility of LGBTI people in the country. 2015 focus is the discrimination against LGBTI people in educational institutions.

Heads of EU member states agreed early today that 40,000 migrants will be relocated and 20,000 currently outside the EU will be resettled in the next two years. However, there will be no mandatory quotas for each...