A young woman from Senegal, who left her country when she was 12, has been forced by the police to reside in the same house with her father and brother, who often beat her in the past, or move to a migrant detention...

To express concern with the inability of the political leadership to face the biggest problems in the country (most connected with record recession), Platform 112, established by 70 Croatian human rights and...

Thousands of deaf people have recently demonstrated in Rome for the official recognition of Italian Sign Language. The LIS (Lingua Italiana dei Segni) is not currently considered a formal language in Italy, meaning...

This is the disturbing story of a Hungarian woman kept in the psychiatric ward of a hospital against her will and heavily medicated for a mental disorder she didn't have. She almost spent the rest of her life there.

There has been more violence in Rome expressing a fascist mood of intolerance. After the attack against the center for migrants of Tor Sapienza, the latest show of hate was directed at the supporters of soccer team...

Two community centers occupied and managed by young people in Milan were attacked by the police on November 18. Around 100 officers armed with riot gear approached the centers very early in the morning in order to...

In response to the restriction of freedom of expression during the advertising campaign of a clothing line, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights on the designer's behalf.

A monument to Georgi Markov was recently unveiled in Sofia’s Journalist Square. Markov was a Bulgarian dissident, author and journalist murdered in London in 1978 in an act widely suspected to be the work of communist...

Thanks to a multi-million forint investment, a district in Budapest is fully covered by surveillance cameras. Does it represent a revolutionary advancement in security, or an invasive security program forced on the public?

The criticism directed at a Croatian professor for sharing his thoughts on the country's independence referendum is a reminder that we must stand against persecution and intimidation as tools to silence those with different opinions.