The EU Fundamental Rights Agency's report on discrimination in the EU reveals ongoing harassment and ethnic profiling across the bloc.

This week, the Council of Europe (CoE) and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) discussed the role of human rights in sports. During the discussion, they underlined the importance of several...

The new Czech government must clearly declare that it has an interest in inclusion. Funding for inclusive education and teacher training is insufficient.

A new report says the number of human rights defenders being killed remains "truly shocking" and there's "little hope that this will change in the short term".

Ratko Mladić, the former Commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army, was convicted in November 2017 of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.

The Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed the one-year prison sentence against five young people who interrupted a church mass in February 2014 to protest against reforms to Spain's abortion law. They were found guilty...

Germany’s opposition parties on 7 January called for the repeal of a new law that aims to eliminate hate speech on social media. Their primary concern is that private companies should not be making decisions about the...

A total of 312 human rights defenders were killed in 27 countries last year, according to a new report by Front Line Defenders. Eighty percent of killings occurred in four countries – Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and...

The winners of the CILD Civil Liberties Awards have been announced! Meet these ordinary - and yet extraordinary - individuals.

A court in the Netherlands in December convicted an aide to a former Ethiopian dictator and sentenced him to life in prison for war crimes carried out during Ethiopia’s 'red terror' purges of the 1970s, including...