Amsterdam city council wants child asylum seekers who have been living in the Netherlands for more than five years to be able to stay in the country, arguing it is now their home. The council called on Mayor Femke...

Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country's domestic intelligence service, has been released from his post and been made a secretary at the Interior...

Hungary's procedure to prevent ill-treatment is ineffective, a report by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has concluded. The report is based on...

The Court of Palermo has overturned the decision of the Territorial Commission and finally granted refugee status to a young man from Cameroon who suffered persecution in his country because he was in a homosexual relationship.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - September 2017

Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s new mayor, has told local broadcaster AT5 that she will close mosques if their imams spread messages of hate but ‘only as a last resort’. Halsema, who outlined her strategy to deal with...

As a result of changes to its judicial system, Poland has been suspended from the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ). The European body argues that the country’s judges are no longer seen as being...

The Romanian Government has created a tool for challenging NGOs that may oppose its agenda under the guise of monitoring how they spend money received from citizens through tax donations.

After last Tuesday's approval of the Constitutional Court, the Romanian Senate also approved a call for a referendum singed by over 3 million people. At the 7 October referendum Romanian citizens will be asked about...

The Dutch government has abandoned its plans to allow companies to pay people with disabilities less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated. The plan had been condemned by...