Four humanitarians have been released on bail in Greece where they had been held since August this year on charges of people smuggling. Among the four is 23-year-old Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini, sister of Yusra...

With the so-called Dublin regulation of the European Union, the Commission has proposed temporary measures to "bridge" the deadlock between member states over the key asylum reform. EU states may now volunteer their...

Human rights and digital rights NGOs call on Justice and Home Affairs ministers of the EU to reconsider the proposed terrorist content regulation, as its current form it will harm free speech, journalism, and access to information.

Madrid City Council and the Municipal Police have launched an Effective Police Identifications Programme that aims to improve police stop and search procedures to avoid racial profiling in a diverse society.

According to a German parliamentary freedom of information request by MP Ulla Jelpke, 467 right-wing extremists wanted by police had not been found by the end of March 2018, the Neue Osnabruecker newspaper has...

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...

Among all EU countries, Germany has by far welcomed the highest number of refugees since 2015. The majority is from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Their path to social inclusion is complicated but not impossible.

While the public’s attention was focused on the absurd ‘Holocaust law’, Poland’s government pulled a fast one and rammed through legislative changes that it cared far more about.

The founder of the MeToo movement says the campaign she began more than a decade ago is now "unrecognisable" to her. In a speech at a recent TEDWomen talk in Palm Springs, Tarana Burke lamented the media backlash...

The tiny German town of Ostritz, near the Polish border, has decided to push back against neo-Nazis. Some 3,000 townspeople and other concerned citizens from the region recently turned up to oppose a Shield and Sword...