Rights International Spain has submitted a number of contributions to the list of issues to consider before the submission of the Seventh Regular Report to the Human Rights Committee.
A recent report based on personal experiences, denounces how racial profiling is a common police practice in Spain and proposes measures to tackle it.
After a seven-month wait the Court in Rovereto has finally forced the mayor of the city to recognise that the child's parents are two women and to issue his identity card.
RIS and the Open Society Justice Initiative organized a workshop in Madrid to address the implementation of an Effective Police Identification Protocol, a pilot project launched by Madrid City Council.
An Austrian ex-policeman has won a long battle at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The court's ruling states that Austria must compensate him for his sacking in 1976 for sexual indecency with minors, which led to...
A major new survey of 12 EU countries has found that anti-Semitism is getting worse across the bloc. The survey, carried out by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency, questioned hundreds of Jews who said they had...
Governments and EU institutions should commit to further measures to tackle violence and discrimination against women, according to the fundamental rights in the EU 2017 report that the European Parliament’s Civil...
A new EU report is a sobering reminder of the degree to which racism and discrimination still exist in European societies. A third of people of African descent in 12 EU states have experienced some form of racist...
VVD MP Klaas Dijkhoff’s call for the Netherlands to follow Denmark in introducing tougher penalties for people from ‘problem areas’ who commit crimes were dismissed as a smoke screen and class justice by MPs during...
The Court of Palermo has overturned the decision of the Territorial Commission and finally granted refugee status to a young man from Cameroon who suffered persecution in his country because he was in a homosexual relationship.
