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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

Approximately 15,000 people are openly practicing Muslims in the Czech Republic, and most are well integrated into Czech society. Despite this negligible number, the Czech extreme right has upped its fight against Islam.

According to the Eurobarometer survey results published at the end of March, three out of five respondents in Europe believed that gender inequality was prevalent in their country. The largest proportion of such...

The support from Victim Support Netherlands to victims of frequently occurring crimes has more than doubled in 2014 compared to 2013, according to the annual report of this organization. It concerns simple cases such...