The Brussels Criminal Court has acquitted six passengers who faced two criminal charges for stopping the deportation of an undocumented person on a flight in August of last year.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Greece - December 2017

The American company Airbnb has ended the practice of processing Dutch national identification numbers (BSN) at the insistence of the Dutch data protection authority. Airbnb now automatically extracts the BSN from all...

The National Police cannot simply prohibit employees from wearing a headscarf in combination with their uniform when their official duties require only limited interaction with the public.

By taking control of how civil society funding is distributed, the government can severely hinder the work of organisations it doesn’t approve of.

A network of more than 90 human rights groups convened in Vienna to discuss the best ways to strengthen the voice of civil society within the world's largest security-focused intergovernmental organisation. Here is what they come up with.

Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer who overturned the Safe Harbour agreement by suing Facebook and changed how personal data transfer of European users can take place to the US, has founded an NGO called None of...

Radio Free Europe and Voice of America were designated by Russia as 'foreign agents', a move aiming to complicate their local work. The Moscow government recently complained about unacceptable US and EU pressure on...

Facebook says it is having success using its artificial intelligence to delete terrorism-related posts, though more work is still needed. At present, roughly 99% of material Facebook removes because of links to Al...

Lithuania may soon become the only country in Europe to ban gender reassignment.