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As migrant deaths continue to mount in the Mediterranean - with more than 700 perishing in recent days - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks calls on Europe to wake up about the crisis on...
The National Ombudsman of the Netherlands is no longer taking part in the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). The NPM was founded in 2011 to prevent inhuman and degrading treatment of citizens kept in detention. The...
For the 12th time in Bulgaria, the Access to Information Programme (AIP) awarded prizes for contribution to the field of freedom of information. The Prosecutor's Office, however, won the derisive "Padlock Award" for...
Several Polish judges who were refused official appointments to judicial offices in 2007 have lodged applications with the European Court of Human Rights, after national courts at every level refused to compel the president to seat them.
Belgian politician Armand De Decker, from the liberal Reformist Movement party, has proposed re-education camps for radicalized young Muslims returning from Syria. Alexis Deswaef, the president of the League of Human...
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On the eve of Bulgaria’s 43rd parliamentary elections, the Dossier Commission examined 2,996 of 5,232 candidates to ascertain whether they had worked for the secret service – known as the Committee for State Security...
The Italian section of Amnesty International has conferred the Art and Human Rights 2014 award on Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, a 40-year-old popular music band from Salento. The awarded song is the touching "Solo...
The past few months have seen a renewed national and international focus on women’s reproductive rights in Ireland, and increased pressure for the repeal of the state's constitutional ban on abortion.
In an interview published in the Spanish newspaper El País, the minister of interior has announced that he will promote reforms to "fight islamic terrorism." In particular, he wants to introduce changes in the...
A former employee of the Romanian Embassy in Vilnius was one of the first women in Lithuania to dare to challenge her discriminatory dismissal in court. Her case was successful and sets a precedent that will help other wrongfully terminated women.
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