The mayor of the southern Italian town of Riace, who is famed for taking in migrants, has been placed under house arrest over allegations he facilitated "marriages of convenience" for immigration purposes. Domenico...

After Ireland overwhelmingly backed repealing the abortion ban in May, discussion of the topic has become heated ahead of the parliamentary debate on the new legislation. After a near full ban in the Irish...

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman tortured and raped by Islamic State militants, and Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, were jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The winners were chosen for their...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - October 2018

Morocco has rejected EU plans to build offshore centres to process asylum applications in North Africa ahead of letting migrants into the European Union. Nasser Bourita, the Moroccan Foreign Minister, said the...

In a debate held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s first vice president cited growing concerns surrounding rule of law in Romania. He expressed worries about changes...

The rescue ship Aquarius, operating in the Mediterranean since 2016, has had its registration revoked. The move jeopardises further life-saving missions by the only private rescue ship still operating along the...

The European Court of Human Rights has brought a decision of key concern to the collection of data in Europe. The ECHR has declared that the mass surveillance by the United Kingdom violated the rights to privacy and family life.

Since the Europe’s data protection regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, Facebook may be fined if the recent profile hack effecting 50 million users is found out to be in breach of GDPR. And though Facebook...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, announced a new technology with the promise to give back control to people over their data. The new service, called Solid, aims to put your personal information...