Germany has agreed to make a one-off payment to surviving children who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport trains to the UK. The roughly 1,000 survivors, most of them Jewish and still living in Britain, will...

The UN is sending a group of experts to Italy to monitor the environment for refugees and foreigners in general, as a new law ramps up racism and hatred in the country.

Billionaire philanthropist Goorge Soros faces daily attacks for his activism and liberal vision of the world. The global economic daily Financial Times’s choice of Person of the Year is usually a reflection of their...

The Belgian Aliens Office has introduced an asylum application quota, capping applications at 50 a day. Every day since the decision was made, queues outside the registration location have numbered more than a...

In a letter sent on Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, twenty-nine civil rights groups call on him and COO Sheryl Sandberg to step down, citing years of the company's role in "generating bigotry and hatred...

To meet or not to meet? This is the question people face in countries like Hungary and Poland. If you're considering demonstrating, watch our Survival Guide to Authoritarianism - Episode 9.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Czech Republic - December 2018

Free assembly is vital to democracy. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, then, that authoritarian governments in Europe are restricting this right in illegitimate ways.

The NGO Border Violence Monitoring has released videos showing migrants being pushed back by policemen at the Bosnian-Croatian border. The footage shows how various armed units of the Croatian police, carrying assault...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and other European populist leaders of spreading misinformation. Juncker, in remarks made on 14 December during the...