The emergency law passed in Hungary is another step in Orbán’s plan to get rid of democracy and the rule of law. Here are 5 things the EU could do to counter it and help Hungarians restore their democracy. The tools are there, just not being used.
By working together through associations, we can make sure our governments steer the right course through the pandemic.
From next year, people will be able to "manage" their own medical records on their computer or mobile phone and decide who should have access to what information, Health Minister Bruno Bruins has told de Volkskrant....
Earlier in January, the Danish press reported that many doctors were refusing to prescribe medicinal cannabis despite it now being legal under a four-year trial that started on 1 January. In the first month of the new...
The German Medical Association spoke out against proposals for young asylum seekers to undergo mandatory medical tests to ascertain their age. They say the checks would be ethically wrong and unreliable. Tests such...
The Italian Senate on December 14 voted in favour of a bill creating living wills in the country, which was approved by the Chamber of Deputies eight months ago. The proposal makes it possible for people, in full use...
Liberties member the League of Human Rights, together with the Czech Helsinki Committee, Lumos and OSF Prague Foundation, defended human rights at the United Nations in Geneva.
A recent debate on obstetrics in the Czech Republic was conspicuously lacking male doctors and politicians, and the country continues to ignore seven-year-old UN recommendations on the freedom of women to choose the place and manner of birth.
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has been dealing with a case of a woman suffering from chronic pain who, despite the recommendations of her attending doctors, was refused the reimbursement of costs of a...
The problem with patients who finish treatment yet are kept in involuntary care continues. Civil Rights Defenders is submitting a complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman about a case in which a man was detained in violation of the European Convention.
