The US has asked the Netherlands to resettle two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. President Obama wanted to close Guantanamo, but Congress won't let him admit freed detainees to the US. The Dutch...
It is very difficult for civil society to make itself understood by the media! Or, more probably, the media sometimes hears what it wants to hear from civil society. Antigone recently presented its annual report on...
"On behalf of France, I always support the freedom of expression." This is what French President François Hollande said when talking about the case of Erri De Luca, a famous Italian writer currently on trial for an...
Slowly and forensically, layer by granular layer, the human rights treaty bodies have been building a three-dimensional model of Ireland’s compliance with its international obligations, writes Mark Kelly, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Seven pacifists broke into NATO military headquarters in Brussels on February 11, 2012, and recorded a video while inside the base, which they put on the Internet to denounce the illegal presence of nuclear weapons in...
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The number of Roma in so-called "special schools" in the Czech Republic is still disproportionately high, the Council of Europe said while assessing the progress from a 2007 Court of Human Rights verdict that...
A Czech woman who was assaulted by hospital staff during childbirth has had her claim against the police for improperly investigating the incident upheld by the country's Constitutional Court.
Events took place across Germany on March 21 to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The "My Right Is Your Right!" campaign, based on a new alliance of artists, activists,...
Antigone has presented its 11th annual report on Italian prisons. Since 1998, the human rights organization has been running a prison observatory, with special authorization by the Ministry of Justice that allows its...
The Spanish National Police Headquarters in Madrid has issued a memo ordering officers to not respect the rights of persons under arrest and their lawyers, enshrined in EU Directives 2010/64 and 2012/13, as long as...
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