A group of MEPs is demanding an external probe into allegations of sexual harassment at the European Parliament following a report of abuse of young female staffers in the Sunday Times newspaper. The article described...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - October 2017

'Mass' or 'dragnet' surveillance has been in the news a lot recently. Later episodes in the series will explain why this practice is such a problem. But to understand why mass surveillance is so bad, we first need to explain what it is. Here goes...

The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights has asked Italy to explain the migration deal it has struck with Libya.

Next Friday, over 70.000 signatures, collected by italian activists gathered in the campaign 'Ero straniero – L’umanità che fa bene', will be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies. The signatures have been collected in...

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of the so-called entry/exit system to cross check the identity of people with various databases. The system aims to register all non-EU travellers throughout the...

Between 2010 and 2014, an 'illiberal state' was being built in Hungary, as promised by the prime minister. Since 2014, we have been offered a perspective on how an actual, consolidated illiberal democracy operates.

Nominations now open for the third edition of the CILD Awards - tell us your human rights hero and why they deserve to be recognized this December in Rome.

Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Google have agreed to up their efforts to tackle extremist content, pledging to remove such posts within hours of them going online. The pledge from the world's largest tech companies...

More than 25 years after the introduction of the special prison regime for organised crime in Italy, for the first time a circular by the Penitentiary Administration regulates it in detail - aiming to (finally) make...