In August 2020, Belarus witnessed its most controversial election yet, leading to widespread protests and international condemnation. Four years on, the landscape...
Tag - Human Rights
Unless democracies act urgently and consistently to uphold their own interests and values, more territory will be lost to dictatorship and repression. The fate of...
The latest edition of the Human Rights Watch World Report outlines some stark differences between emerging Europe’s EU and non-EU members. Emerging Europe’s...
With tensions still high – and further conflict still possible – both Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities need to make clear and firm commitments to prioritise the...
Posts casting doubt on evidence of alleged war crimes in Bucha continue to be shared on social media despite independent investigations that demonstrate Russian war...
A near-total ban on abortion in Poland has led to an increase in the number of Poles heading across the border to Ukraine. For several years, private abortion clinics in...
A draft bill in Serbia that would give the green light to mass biometric surveillance but offer increased privacy protection for police has alarmed civil society. The...
Recent events in Poland have highlighted the country’s need to tackle police brutality, which some analysts link to the country’s political climate. On the...
European Union member states should lift all obstacles facing LGBT+ people when exercising their basic rights, MEPs decided on September 14. In a resolution on the...
Human rights groups have condemned a new round of arrests in Belarus targeting civil society organisations. Belarusian authorities carried out a day of massive...
The EU wants to boost cooperation with its eastern partners. But how committed are they to upholding EU values? Belarus last week pulled out of the EU’s Eastern...
A long campaign by Roma women in Czechia who were forcibly sterilised appears to be finally coming to a successful conclusion. The lower house of the Czech parliament...
