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.

A group of 14 attorneys provided assistance to persons seeking international protection in Poland at a crossing point on the border with Belarus, a frontier where the rights of asylum seekers are blatantly ignored.

The Hungarian government is preparing new legislation that requires NGOs funded by international donors to register and declare themselves as foreign agents.

MPs belonging to the Farmers and Greens Union proposed legally obliging the Lithuanian media to publish "positive" and "negative" information in equal parts.

In Italy, a new decree on security has recently been approved, allegedly with the aim of promoting safety in society. But the new decree is facing major objections by Antigone and other civil rights organizations. The...

The Commission for Ethics and Procedures has asked Parliament to launch impeachment proceedings against MP Kęstutis Pūkas, who is accused of sexual harassment.

More than 200 migrants are feared dead after their boats sank off the coast of Libya, Spanish aid organization Proactiva Open Arms says. Five bodies, all young men who appeared to have drowned, were recovered floating...