Italian NGO Antigone has presented a new report on the state of Italian prisons conlcuding that although crime rates are down, the prison poulation is increasing becauses judges are handing down longer sentences.

Anti-values parties inside the main political groups at the heart of the European Parliament have become stronger. But various pro-values coalitions are still possible in the new parliament.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Poland - May 2019

Our new policy paper offers funders and civil society organisations a battery of measures designed to counter rising support for authoritarian policies and nurture public support for progressive causes.

All eyes are on the Casal Bruciato outskirt of the Italian capital, which has been marred by violent protests being stoked by the extreme-right wing association CasaPound.

The online news outlet H-alter reports that, over the past six months, many eye-witness accounts have emerged suggesting that Croatian police are detaining and torturing refugees and migrants in a garage at the police...

A clinic in a major Lithuanian city has taken the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson to court in response to it finding the clinic to not be properly accessible to people of limited mobility. However, the judges...

The video that brought down Austria's government was devastating, but it was far from an isolated incident. Instead, it points to a much larger problem that exists across Europe.

Our representatives shouldn’t steal from us or sell out their own country. It seems like a pretty small ask, but it’s not — even in the EU.

The European Union may not be the perfect example of democracy, but it is indeed a democratic regime, and one that deserves our moral support.