After the tragic death of a two-year-old Iraqi Kurd girl, shot dead by Belgian police as she sat on her mother's lap, human rights groups are demanding that the government open a full investigation into the incident.

On 11 May, the body of an African woman was found in France, a few kilometers from the border with Italy: she was one of the many "sans papiers" who attempt to reach France from Italy. The death of the woman has...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) is losing employees in droves, financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad reports. This may cause problems at the privacy watchdog, especially given that it now has more power...

What's wrong with governments forcing rights groups to publish the names of their donors? Quite a lot, actually.

Seventeen survivors of a shipwreck that took last November in the Mediterranean have filed an application before the European Court of Human Rights that accuses the Italian government complicity in torture and other rights violations.

At the beginning of May, the Czech Supreme Court acknowledged a decision by a judge in the US state of California, which declared a pair of Czech gay men as the legal parents of a newly born child. The child was born...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the US CIA to torture them. American forces captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim...

The awards honor entertainers and productions that promote a more accurate and faithful representation of LGBT issues. Meet the 2018 winners!

Human rights stories are not always happy and uplifting. But this week was full of good news - take our quiz and see how much you know about what's happened this week!

The Hungarian government should withdraw a package of laws set to be introduced in the parliament that would significantly restrict the ability of NGOs and individuals to support asylum-seekers and refugees, the UNHCR...