Spain has accepted 80 recommendations proposed during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council aimed at fighting racial discrimination but it still needs to do more.

Usually careful in his statements that concern Eastern Europe, Andrej Babiš has recently become far more outspoken amid continuing protests in Belarus.

Catalan independence campaigners are suspected to have been targeted by government services using spyware, which is allegedly only sold to governments for the purpose of surveilling criminals and terrorists.

​Wearing a mask during COVID19 makes our societies freer, because it gives more people more choice over how to live their lives.

​The Istanbul Convention’s sole objective is to combat violence against women and domestic violence.

Chechen asylum seekers, who had repeatedly been refused an opportunity to file applications for international protection by the Polish Border Guard, have successfully challenged Poland at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Georgiana Gheorghe, executive director of APADOR-CH, expressed her deep concern regarding the lack of clarity surrounding the law on preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing, as previously reported by the Monitor.

Media in Hungary is now almost completely under government control after Index staff quit in protest against the editor’s sacking.

In an attempt to assess the changes that have taken place in the justice system in the aftermath of Rutkowski case, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has conducted a survey among lawyers on the excessive length of court proceedings.

Institutional racism produces mutually reinforcing patterns of racial inequality in society as it provides unequal access to goods, services and rights according to ethno-racial belonging.