An international coalition of NGOs submitted to the Council of Europe its comments on how to protect human rights when developing new rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence. The CoE is in the process of...

International law permits the use of lethal force in very restricted circumstances. But drone strikes conducted by the U.S. appear to allow for extra-judicial executions and also cause the death of many civilians....

Romania violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing a worker to be fired for using company internet for personal communication.

The president of France wants citizens’ debates across the European Union, he announced symbolically while in Greece, with the Acropolis behind him. Emmanuel Macron called on Europeans to "have the courage to find...

The ruling coalition from the Romanian Government decided that the referendum on the constitutional amendments will be held this autumn. The decision is a response to the request of religious organizations that ...

The Belgian minister of justice, Koen Geens, wants to assess which imams are active in the country and to which mosque they are tied. The executive body that represents Muslims in Belgium would need to aid in this...

The recent arrest in Spain of a critic of the Turkish government sends a message that police forces in EU countries are still all too willing to do the bidding of authoritarian regimes.

At the beginning of August, a court in Amsterdam and the Dutch Data Protection Authority, a privacy watchdog, clarified that municipalities cannot oblige sex workers to provide sensitive personal information when they...

2017 began with perhaps the greatest achievement in public demonstration since the overthrow of Ceausescu, but NGOs now face a fight for their survival.

NGOs inside the EU are facing a growing number of restrictions that limit their ability to promote and protect our fundamental rights.