A social advertisement from the Lithuanian Human Rights Center targets hatred and racism.

Thousands of people came to Frankfurt Wednesday to demonstrate against the European Central Bank during the opening of its new headquarters. Riots started early in the morning, causing damage and leaving 350 people...

One in three people with foreign-sounding names is being discriminated against in their housing search. This is what emerges from a survey conducted at the request of the city of Ghent, assisted by the Interfederal...

In a break-through verdict the district court of The Hague has rendered the Dutch Data Retention Act inoperative. The judge did so at the request of the Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights and six other civil society organizations.

A family of Afghan asylum seekers, represented by the Lithuanian Red Cross, has won a strategic case in court. A Švenčionys district court recognized that the family, which has two small children (aged 5 and 8), could...

France's lower house of Parliament passed a bill on March 17 allowing patients near the end of their lives to stop medical treatment and request deep sedation until they die. The draft law passed in the lower house...

According to a survey published this February, 80 percent of religious minority communities in Lithuania feel discriminated against, with the primary factor being the Roman Catholic Church. Many respondents claimed...

It is a dark time for harm reduction in Hungary: another life-saving service has fallen victim to political paranoia.

An educational project visiting different schools in the country lends "living books," members of various minorities who share their stories with children.

The Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school. The court in Karlsruhe said religious symbols could only be banned when they...