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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.
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...
What's wrong with governments forcing rights groups to publish the names of their donors? Quite a lot, actually.
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...
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!
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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...
A backdated, one-sentence decision, sent via fax: this is how the Polish minister of justice was dismissing presidents and deputy presidents of courts.
The Commission paid considerable lip service to better supporting rights and democracy groups in the next EU budget. But its proposed funding programme falls short on every count.
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