Almost 70 NGOs are urging Lithuanian MPs to better protect victims of domestic violence by complying with international obligations and ratifying the Council of Europe Convention combating violence against women.

New registration, reporting and transparency requirements of the Hungarian “NGO law” violate EU fundamental rights law and rules on free movement of capital.

Freedom of speech is necessary to hold governments to account, but it is under threat in Europe. Here’s why this right is so important, and what Liberties is doing to protect it.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), has proposed a bill that calls for immediately arresting and detaining people who possibly present a threat to national safety, despite there being little or no evidence.

A Serbian NGO has strongly criticized the Hungarian government’s plan to electrify its border fence between the two countries in an effort to deter migrants. The Belgrade Center for Protection and Help for Asylum...

A new study reveals that suspects don't understand their rights and, as a result, can't enjoy them effectively.

Liberties’ Executive Director offers his views on the current human rights situation in the European Union.

Following the Strasbourg court's condemnation of Russia's "propaganda law," a representative of the European Parliament urged the European Commission to review analogous regulations in Lithuania.

A Polish man has been given a conditional prison sentence for stealing luggage at Schiphol Airport and pretending to be a terrorist with a bomb.

Heated debate has broken out across Italy about the sentence of Salvatore Riina, possibly the most notorious mafia boss alive, whose health suggests that house arrest would be a more just form of detention.