Authoritarians – even the democratically elected ones – love to blame the media for pointing out their lies, corruption or whatever else they were hoping to keep secret. This is nothing new.

Italy was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council with 180 votes. For the countries of the Western European group three places were allocated and there were three candidates, meaning there are no defeated countries in the European Union area.

On 8 October, the first real appeal hearing for the Condor Trial took place, revealing new documents about Operation Condor.

Hackers have published private messages from some 81,000 Facebook accounts, and may have access to 120 million users' accounts in total. The group of hackers had been attempting to sell the private messages from...

Citizens of the German state of Hesse have finally voted to scrap the death penalty from its Constitution, phasing out a 69-year-old legal anomaly that had allowed it. Eighty-three percent of voters voted to abolish...

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CIVICUS Monitor update on Romania - November 2018

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has suggested that his country will withdraw from the United Nations pact on migration. The move, which the European Commission is not happy about, comes after Austria, Hungary and...

Last week, posters appeared in Italy's capital that read "two men don't make a mother". The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, had them removed, saying, “The exploitation of a child and a homosexual couple in the image of...

​There has been a twist at the hearing of the trial in which five policemen were accused of the death of Stefano Cucchi, the Roman surveyor arrested on 15 October 2009 who died at the Pertini Hospital the following week.