An investigating judge of the Spanish National Court has decided to close a case concerning a flight from Macedonia to Kabul that was transporting an alleged victim of CIA torture. The plane landed in Palma de...

Drugreporter's new video, filmed at the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, explores the most effective tools for ending the HIV epidemic.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has rejected the referral request of the Hungarian government, making the Court's original ruling against the Church Act final.

For several months, the leadership position of the anti-drug department of the Italian government has been vacant. The same issue exists with the Department of Penitentiary Administration, and the national prison...

A new Italian soccer club, Atletico Diritti, founded by two NGOs, brings together a diverse group of players to further the cause of human rights.

The Italian Army will begin growing marijuana for medical purposes at the army chemical plant of Florence. After controversies and delays, the ministers of defense and health came to an agreement that will be made...

Russian dissident Nikolai Koblyakov, who is under house arrest in Sofia, has requested asylum in Bulgaria because of the threat of political persecution by the Russian government.

In August, the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice proposed a new structure for personal identification codes: a sequence of 11 randomly selected numbers. Currently, all Lithuanian personal codes adhere to a rigid internal...

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) condemns today’s police raids against Hungarian NGOs as politically motivated actions that elevate the illiberal Orban government’s attack against civil society to a new, unprecedented level.

The Belgian city of Namur is the latest municipality to pass a measure that effectively outlaws begging, despite it being officially decriminalized by the state in 1993.