Last year, the EU Commission proposed making fingerprints on national identity cards mandatory.

The website VisuReikalas.lt (“Everyone’s Business”), which provides information on domestic violence, has been nominated for the international Emerging Europe awards. It was nominated for the...

The League of Human Rights and Liga voor Mensenrechten have lodged an appeal before the Constitutional Court against a new law requiring the introduction of digital fingerprints on identity cards.

In a landmark judgement, a Polish court rules that a partially incapacitated man must be added to the voters' register for the 2019 European parliamentary elections.

The latest study on attitudes towards transgender individuals in Lithuania revealed that while they were viewed in a somewhat positive light, the Lithuanian public generally lack knowledge about this social group.

​Every time you go online, your personal information — health history, sexual orientation, browsing history and more — can be shared with thousands of companies in less time than it takes you to blink your eyes.

"Suspects in restraints” is a European project focused on how suspects are presented in a courtroom, before the jury, the public and the media​ and how restraining them affects the impartiality of the judicial process.

The Hungarian Constitutional Court has ruled that homelessness “is not part of the right to human dignity” which means the criminalisation and imprisonment of homeless people is constitutional.

The European Court of Human Rights has made a judgement in the case of Kosaitė-Čypienė and others v. Lithuania, which concerned the right of women to give birth in their homes with the help of medical professionals.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Greece - June 2019