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Recent research demonstrates that in migration cases, the highest general administrative court in the Netherlands usually sides with the Dutch state rather than the aliens.
The EU deeply regrets that the Iranian judicial system did not allow a retrial of the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari - an Iranian woman who was hanged because she killed the man who had tried to rape her - in spite of...
On October 1, 2015, the Dutch ombudsman for children, Marc Dullaert, will become the chairman of the European Network of Ombudsmen for Children (ENOC). This has been unanimously decided by the 42 ombudsmen for...
The Hungarian police have recently launched a drug prevention program under which one police officer at every police department is tasked with responding to queries of parents and teachers concerning young people's...
As a planned tax on Internet use is set to be rolled out next week by the Hungarian government, civil society organizations like the HCLU argue the new tax will violate citizens' rights to freedom of information, expression, and privacy.
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Mikhail Stoyanov was found dead on October 1, 2008, in a park in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was a medical student in the last year of his studies. The defendants in the case, Alexander Georgiev and Radoslav Kirchev, were...
A lack of transparency still surrounds Europe's migrant detention camps, but the new booklet “The hidden face of immigration detention in Europe" attempts to raise awareness and shed more light on the situation within the camps.
Following the appeal by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) to the Minister of the Interior, on October 6 the Lithuanian Police Department changed the discriminatory provisions contained in its long-term...
A study has found that mentally disabled Roma people in Lithuania suffer from social exclusion on two levels - not only is it difficult for them to find a place in society, the Roma community itself ignores their...
The United Nations General Assembly has elected the Netherlands to the Human Rights Council for 2015-2017. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders, who applauds the Dutch membership, “it underlines the...
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