The Ministry of the Interior has decided to abandon its plans to amend the Public Collections Act. The decision follows a review of comments submitted by social organizations. One of the proposed amendments was to...

A court in Warsaw has ruled that a boycott of a brand of Polish beer was unlawful. Managers of a Warsaw-based coffee shop organized the boycott, which included the public spilling of beer produced by a well-known...

The organizations have appealed to the Constitutional Court against the government's new legislation on fraudulent acknowledgement of paternity, which contravenes national and international law.

An Israeli firm relying on semi-legal intelligence and surveillance techniques and working with ex-spies was behind the recent attacks against Hungarian NGOs. Civil society organisations, including Liberties and...

Dutch parliamentarians passed a motion on Tuesday demanding EU- and national-level 'Magnitsky Acts' against Russia and other human rights abusers. They gave a five-month deadline for the Council of Ministers and hope...

The Dutch minister of justice and security, Ferdinand Grappenhaus, wants to adjust criminal law in order to be able to act against radical imams. He announced this during the parliamentary round of questions last...

The government has used its latest hate-filled campaign against refugees and human rights defenders to stir voters ahead of this weekend's election.

Twitter has been acussed by Amnesty International of creating an unsafe environment for women online and violating their human rights.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - April 2018

In 2017, police officers in the Netherlands faced 9,101 incidents of verbal or physical violence directed at them. Every day last year, an average of 25 officers were insulted, threatened or physically abused while...