In March 2014, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities notified Hungary's ombudsman, the commissioner for fundamental rights, about the local police...

A Macedonian cultural organization has brought a complaint against Bulgaria to the European Court of Human Rights after two state courts refused to register it because it poses "a threat to the unity of the Bulgarian nation."

Dr. Eugenia Relaño, an expert in human rights and religious freedom, analyzes existing legal precedent regarding the prohibition of the full veil.

A Belgian mayor faces charges for his airplane protest against a deportation, but the League of Human Rights says this and other acts of peaceful expression should not be punished.

Job seekers in the Netherlands over the age of 16 are already "past the expiration date" if they apply at toys chain Intertoys. This emerges from a (now removed) shelf stacking vacancy which specifically addressed 15...

"Io sto con la sposa" ("On the Bride's Side"), a documentary produced with the help of crowdfunding, has been selected as one of the five finalists for the David di Donatello Award, a prestigious Italian film prize....

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.

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...

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 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...