The Court of Human Rights has ruled that Romania violated the human rights of two of its citizens in a case stemming from a demonstration in Bucharest in June of 1990, which became known for the brutality used against demonstrators.

A new campaign calls on the UN to conduct a Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Italian NGO Antigone has joined the campaign, which has organized an event in New York during the United Nations General Assembly week on child rights.

In its latest attack against the country's defenders of democracy, the Hungarian government recently raided several human rights NGOs. A few weeks after the prime minister declared an end to liberal democracy in...

Young boys and girls are much more likely to commit suicide if they are homosexuals, explained Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome, during a two-day international...

A new study released by the Romanian Harm Reduction Network shows that HIV infection rates have registered an alarming rise in Romanian prisons.

The Health Committee of the Conference of the Regions came to an agreement on the guidelines for heterologous fertilization, also referred to as artificial insemination by donor. The protocol came after a recent...

A new “Victims’ Law” in the UK is being greeted with caution over doubts about whether it will go far enough in protecting victims of violent crimes. For many, the most important law for protecting victims is already on the books: the Human Rights Act.

Belgium's illegal extradition of a man violated his human rights and the country's international obligations, according to a recent Court of Human Rights ruling. The extradition occurred despite the fact that a legal appeal against it was still active.

More than 1,500 migrants have been saved from the Mediterranean Sea in the last two weeks by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, the migrant rescue operation privately funded by the Catracombe family. The migrants are...

Hungary’s National Police force has been accused of discrimination in targeting Roma citizens for trivial fines. NGOs have sent a letter to the police commissioner, who denies the allegations, asking for a working group to study the problem.