Evidence uncovered by a new investigative report from Al Jazeera has prompted Italian ​NGOs to once again pressure the government to address the surveillance industry's continued business dealings with repressive regimes.

After finally adopting a proper freedom of information act, Italy improved its right to information rating - but only in theory, as in practice there is still much to be done to ensure freedom of information.

Of the over 3 billion euros given to international organizations by the Italian government and its contributors in 2015, most of it is used for agriculture and food supply by the UN's Food and Agriculture...

A new report by a British internet watchdog foundation finds that over a third of all online links to child porn are hosted on servers in the Netherlands

The police in the Netherlands can search a smartphone as long as it does not disproportionally infringe on the owner's privacy.

The Constitutional Court rejected the government's proposal to review the constitutionality of the law under which loans in Swiss francs were converted to euros because the laws had a legitimate aim - to increase social protection.

As part of International Anti-Street Harassment Week, April 2-8, the initiative Hollaback! Croatia held a flash mob on Saturday, the 8th of April. The aim was to warn about street harassment that women and LGBT people...

Legislation on self-defense in Italy might be about to be changed by a new legal proposal. The bill aims to widen the situations in which self-defense is considered a legitimate reaction to danger or aggression, but...

Prime Minister Orbán of Hungary wants to silence Hungarian rights activists, pro-democracy NGOs and investigative journalists. Friends of democracy and civil liberties must stop him: sign our petition.

For the first time in years, the European People’s Party may stand united with the EP’s other party groups against the clear breaches of democracy by Viktor Orbán’s government.