The Czech Ministry of Health recently withdrew a controversial amendment to the public health law after receiving an open letter from NGOs. In the letter, the organizations said they're trying to stop the introduction...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has submitted to the Seimas (Parliament) legislative initiatives encouraging and expediting childcare in families and group homes, as well as adoption. At this time, there are...

New safeguards to help protect the rights of the disabled are included in amendments recently adopted by the Lithuanian Parliament to reform incapacity regulations.

Anti-democratic groups should be banned in the Netherlands, according to the right-wing VVD and three Christian parties in the Dutch Parliament. The parties say the constitution should be changed to prevent groups...

A football support group and a human rights NGO team up to fight racism and violence in football stadiums in Croatia.

A draft law legalizing registered partnerships in Lithuania has been submitted to the Seimas (Parliament). The law would allow registered partnerships between both opposite-sex couples and homosexual couples....

Human rights progress stalled in most areas in Bulgaria last year, while serious violations were found in others, according to the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee's annual report.

This March, the Drugreporter video advocacy team attended the 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the largest drug policy gathering in the world, to find out how governments and NGOs feel about the prospects of drug policy reform.

In an appeal case, the court of The Hague has decided that the Dutch supplier of mustard gas to Saddam Hussein will have to pay damages to a number of Iraqi and Iranian citizens. In 1987 and 1988, these citizens...

The French Parliament has passed a bill that will allow the experimentation of safe injection rooms for a period of a maximum of six years, after hours of lively debate between left and right politicians. The bill on...