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The number of people helped to die under Dutch euthanasia legislation rose 8% last year, to 6,585, the regional monitoring committee said in March. Of these procedures, 99.8% were carried out carefully and in line...
Sweden is now the first country in the world to offer compensation to transgender people who were forced to undergo sterilization in order to be allowed to change their sex. Up until 2013, Swedish citizens had to...
The film "Stranger in Paradise," by Guido Hendrix, was awarded the Grand Prix for best documentary at Europe’s leading international human rights film event, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights....
Freedom of speech is one of the basic foundations of any democratic society, and any restrictions that are placed on it must meet strict standards.
Facebook's chief executive apologized after 50 million users' data was mishandled by the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which improperly accessed user information to build profiles on American voters....
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Geert Wilders and his PVV won city council seats in each one of the 30 municipalities the party participated in during the municipal elections on 21 March. In total, the PVV currently stands on 74 seats, the...
The European Court of Human Rights will consider the case of 14 unaccompanied minors who were detained in appalling conditions in an Italian 'hotspot' facility last year.
The EU is considering reforms that would allow coercion to be used against children aged 14 and up in order to get their fingerprints. The regulation, which is meeting some resistance in the EU Parliament, would be...
An exit poll published on Wednesday night showed that roughly 48 percent of the Dutch population turned out to vote in a referendum on a law that would give intelligence services the authority to collect and access a...
Poland's official response to EU objections on judicial reform said the changes "restored the necessary balance between the executive, legislative, and judiciary powers while maintaining all guarantees of independence...
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