From smear campaigns to funding restrictions, governments across the EU are increasingly trying to silence human rights defenders. As the European Parliament prepares to debate the issue, Liberties offers its recommendations to improve the situation.

Ahead of Safer Internet Day on 6 February 2018, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) had to be evaluated and possibly amended. Merkel made this announcement in a video...

A year after his first visit, Italy's national guarantor of the rights of people deprived of liberty went back to Lampedusa and uncovered the same intolerable living conditions that he had previously reported.

Fundación Civio is appealing to the Supreme Court against a judicial interpretation of the Law on Transparency that is not conceived in the law itself and that implies a serious regression in citizens’ right to access public information.

Ethnic profiling isn't just racist, it's bad, counterproductive policing that helps terrorists. The good news: with proper training, security services can target people on the basis of evidence, not colour, and do a better job of keeping us safe.

The EU border agency Frontex is stepping up intelligence gathering of migrants pulled from the Mediterranean in an effort to identify terrorist suspects and criminals. On 1 February, Frontex launched its Themis...

Four months ahead of the deadline, only two countries have implemented into national law the EU's new data protection regulations. Here's why it matters to citizens and not just companies.

On 31 January 2018, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the College of Commissioners will participate in the launch of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Belgium. The aim of this Year of...

Fourteen Hungarian civil society organisations have submitted a joint appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, asking the court to declare that the anti-civil act on "foreign funding" violates the groups' fundamental rights.

When it comes to providing inclusive education for LGBTQI youths, no Council of Europe (CoE) country does it better than Malta. The LGBTQI Inclusive Education Report, conducted by IGLYO, the International LGBTQI Youth...