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The European Court of Human Rights has given Bulgaria 18 months to introduce remedies for the poor conditions in its prisons, including overcrowding and a lack of privacy, after a recent pilot judgment confirmed human rights abuses.
In parallel with the events of Marriage Week, funded for the past few years from ministerial funds and organized this year under the patronage of the Hungarian president's wife, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is...
Slovakia's referendum on banning gay marriage and gay adoption has failed due to low turnout. The referendum, held Saturday, gave voters the opportunity to restrict the definition of marriage to heterosexual couples...
Batons, handcuffs, tear gas and solitary confinement for up to 24 hours - these are the tools used in Lithuanian socialization centers to "socialize" children with emotional and behavioral problems.
In 2014, 30,020 people requested asylum in the Netherlands, which constitutes a 75 percent increase from 2013. This number concerns the total of first and second asylum applications, many of which were submitted...
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Yesterday the Polish Parliament discussed a draft law ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on combating violence against women (the Istanbul Convention). The matter of ratification sparked a highly polarized...
Rome has approved civil unions for all couples, including same-sex couples and foreigners. After months of polemics, the resolution was voted through by 32 of the 43 council members. Inscription in the official...
On February 3, the Dutch House of Representatives appointed Reinier van Zutphen as the new national ombudsman. He succeeds Alex Brenninkmeijer, who left his post thirteen months ago. Mr. van Zutphen has extensive...
New measures taken by the Belgian government to fight terrorism could be counterproductive and threaten citizens' fundamental rights, warns the League of Human Rights.
Forty people live in a "hospital" in Přerov in conditions similar to those of a Victorian workhouse. They have only one shower, are undernourished and have only one person to care of them. "Most of them are...
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