A reform of European Commission rules will force midlevel staff to change policy fields at least once every 10 years. The move is a response to employees’ requests that they be able to more easily move across the...

Human rights organizations are urging the Human Rights Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament to reject the draft law on the prevention of organized crime.

The decision to reject the Report of the Ombudsperson for the year 2015 is a direct blow to human rights and the rule of law.

The campaign aims to transform five misunderstood words related to migration into instruments for greater understanding and solidarity.

After Bulgarian prosecutors refused to investigate public homophobic hate speech and death threats, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights.

The Belgian League of Human Rights filed the complaint – which also accuses the justice minister – saying it is quite clear that the government does not care about the living conditions of detainees in its prisons.

Although 70 percent of Italians see extensive discrimination based on sexual orientation, a similar number agree that LGBTI people should have the same rights as heterosexual people.

More than 700 migrants are feared dead in Mediterranean shipwrecks over a three-day span last week. The shipwrecks may represent the largest loss of life reported in the Mediterranean since April 2015, when a single...

Foreigners who are targets of hate attacks in Czechia can now find help in a new guide prepared by the In Iustitia NGO. They can learn how to act in such instances, how to report a crime, and how the investigation...

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament rejected on May 17 the draft constitutional amendments aiming to introduce the definition of a family as heterosexual marriage and parenthood only. The fate of...