The Vilnius Regional Court has found that prosecutors correctly refused to launch an investigation into Marius Ivaškevičius's novel "Žali", and that prosecuting the author for his postmodernist work was impermissible in a democracy.

France and Germany have presented a joint call asking for formal hearings under Article 7 in the Council, to take place in June after the elections, on the serious threats to fundamental values in Hungary and Poland.

Now that the President has finally appointed a Minister of the Environment, the Lithuanian cabinet is once again made up solely of men. Currently Lithuania is the only EU state without a single female minister. The...

Christian fundamentalist groups tied to the Trump administration are spending millions in the EU to promote discriminatory policies and boost far-right candidates in the upcoming EP elections.

The latest annual report of Spain's National Security Council highlights the need to counter xenophobic discourse against migrants. According to the report, the State must "initiate specific strategic programmes and...

The world is messy. We cannot put things into neat categories. Like democracy. And that's fine – we should embrace the disorderliness and chill.

The sixth Equality and Diversity Awards honoured the initiatives and people that did the most for human rights in Lithuania in 2018.

A professional association of Guardia Civil agents has declared they will sue the musicians Josetxu Piperrak & The Riber Rock Band because of the lyrics of their song "OVNI" ("UFO"), which they consider offensive...

If you think all the anti-democratic buzz was about Fidesz and other right-wing parties, think again.

As a group of refugees were trying to cross from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian police officers stopped them and forced them to shout football slogans and make the salute of the fascist Ustasha regime while filming them.