As previously reported on the CIVICUS Monitor, on 22nd October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruled that abortion due to foetal abnormality is unconstitutional.

While the EU tries to cool discussions about the vaccine passport, EU member states, international trade organisations and a small town in South Germany take steps to implement it.

​While governments around the world are rightly focussing on vaccination strategies to protect people from COVID-19, a debate has heated up as to what the vaccine will entail for our civil liberties – including our right to move freely in the EU.

The way the vaccine is distributed is likely to intensify existing inequalities in society, in three ways.

We help you getting updated on the latest threat on Europeans' privacy & fundamental rights, the so-called vaccine passport.

​On 11th and 25th October 2020, Lithuania held parliamentary elections that ultimately led to the creation of a new conservative government.

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent has expressed concern about systemic racism during the coronavirus pandemic and has urged governments to end police impunity.

​The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit Hungary in early September 2020.

​In late September 2020, after a 16-month deadlock, seven political parties agreed to form a coalition federal government that replaced the caretaker administration.

​On 29th October 2020, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with the support of Parliament, extended the state of alarm until May 2021, which is expected to help the authorities control the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.