The Romanian ruling coalition is undermining the rule of law at the moment when Romania is preparing to take over for the first time the…
EU’s supreme court of Justice ruled out Kafkaesque limitations to environmental justice. Europe’s citizens should be able to seek justice against environmental permits, while authorities should…
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…
Sir: While self-censorship is more or less understandable for journalists, who are considerably more exposed to muzzles, harassment, threats and violence – such as Pakistan…
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…
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…
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…
Aniko Bakonyi, Advocacy and project officer at the Refugee Programme of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, explains why the new anti-NGO legislation contradicts core European values…
BUDAPEST. With national elections set for the 8th of April, Hungary’s government is running a campaign that focuses on demonising foreign-funded NGOs, which the officials…
