Polish fight for women’s rights dressed in black in 2016 when hundreds of thousands of women stood against a restrictive anti-abortion bill. In March 2018…
Repressive legislation, negative media coverage, lack of recognition and imposition of service functions—having to deal with issues that are normally the responsibility of the state such…
While the numbers of refugees entering Europe decrease, political hysteria against them is on the rise. Civil society advocates and humanitarian organisations helping migrants are…
On the way back from a public inspection of an illegal construction in a protected area on 28 December, 2017, strangers attacked and brutally beat…
Money talks, says a study of Washington’s political lobbying and its influence on climate change law. Most of the most vocal money comes from big…
Local people and civil society groups have stood in protest against construction at the historic City Park of Budapest. The project is one of several…
In the first major legislative moves since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won reelection this spring, the Hungarian Parliament on June 20 passed a package of…
“Twelve years ago we were taking along our children to protest; today they are taking their children!” These words of George Daskalov describe best his…
European and Russian activists expressed support for Bulgaria’s environmental and human rights movements, demanded the release of the imprisoned head of Memorial in Grozny, Oyub…
On May 25, 2018, the people of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of women’s right to choose whether to give birth or not. This attests…
