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The Dutch government is planning to launch a campaign against fake news in the run-up to the provincial, national and European Parliament elections happening next year. The campaign will not focus on content or...

In recent years, Spain has experienced an almost complete elimination of Universal Jurisdiction. Civil Society groups are now working on reviving this.

The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola, said after a 10-day visit to Italy that migrant agricultural workers were “enduring extreme levels of labor exploitation and coercion, and...

The Netherlands has issued its first gender-neutral passport. Leonne Zeegers received a passport with the gender designation X, instead of M for man or V for woman. The 57-year-old was born male, but now identifies as...

On Friday the European Court of Justice ordered Poland’s government to immediately halt the implementation of a controversial law designed to force nearly two dozen of the nation’s Supreme Court justices into early...

Can you spot the difference between "fake news" and real, fact-based stories? And what would you do if confronted with a story you're not sure about? Take our quiz and find out how good your fake-news radar is.

About 360 unaccompanied refugee children disappeared from asylum centres in the Netherlands last year, and there are fears that many may have been the victims of human trafficking, or forced into slavery and...

Germany has extradited the prime suspected in the murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. Severin Krasimirov, who was arrested last week in a German town near Hamburg, was connected to the crime after his...

The UN General Assembly on Friday voted for Denmark to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the next three years. It will be the first time that Denmark has a seat at the UNHRC table, which it...