"I am convinced that foreigners with long-term residency in a particular state should have the right to participate in politics. The majority of European countries, including the Czech Republic, still deny this...

As many as 700 migrants are feared dead in a single shipwreck in the Mediterranean this weekend, bringing the estimated death toll to over 1,000 in one week. In response, the European Commission is promising a new...

Prisoner abuse and overcrowding highlight a critical assessment of the conditions in Bulgarian prisons in 2014.

Defenders' Days, an annual conference in Stockholm, is dedicated to recognizing the work of human rights defenders at risk. Its 2015 award for top defender went to a Vietnamese blogger who openly criticizes human rights abuses in her country.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Middlesex University and the Senate of the Republic of Poland are organizing a conference devoted to the role of national parliaments in the process of executing decisions...

A statement from Rights International Spain, released in the face of Spain’s approval of the new "gag law," reminds us that we must continue to exercise our rights to defend them.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) has sent a letter to 41 Dutch municipalities with the request to provide additional information about the processing of personal data within all sectors that relate to the...

Campaigners in the Netherlands, led by the Urgenda Foundation, are taking the government to court for allegedly failing to protect its citizens from climate change. The Urgenda Climate Case is the first case in...

Ten organizations are calling for the immediate end of a new mega prison project in Haren, Belgium.

For Czechs, living off benefits can be worse than stealing or killing a thief, according to a survey by the Public Opinion Research Center. Avoiding a job search while receiving support was described as totally...