A man who was abused as a child by a priest of the Polish Catholic Church has agreed to settle his civil suit against the Church, but will continue his claim against the priest.
Violence by care staff against patients with mental disabilities is an everyday occurrence in some facilities in Bulgaria, just one of the alarming revelations in an annual report on human rights in Bulgaria in 2014.
Open Rights Group, Privacy International and internationally renowned experts file amicus curiae briefs with the Hungarian Constitutional Court in a case to repeal the country's communications act.
Rejecting visually impaired students from an educational program isn't permitted in the Netherlands. It happened to a young woman who started a case with the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights on account of discrimination against her.
"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...
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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.
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.
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...
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...
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