Azerbaijani authorities are abusing restrictions imposed to slow the spread of Covid-19 to arrest opposition activists and silence government critics, Human Rights Watch...
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One of the first acts of Hungary’s government following last week’s power grab that saw Prime Minister Viktor Orbán handed wide and far-reaching powers with...
A pattern is beginning to emerge across the central, southern and eastern parts of Europe, where those countries – such as Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary and...
Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, confidently suggested last week that when the country’s national bank issues its final figures for 2019, growth in the...
Croatia set to assume EU’s rotating presidency at a difficult time for both the country and the bloc
The first week of 2020 is set to be a busy one for Croatia. On January 1, the country assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, while on...
Amnesty International condemned the Hungarian news agency MTVA for stopping its staff to report on statements from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. “It is...
Croatia should immediately stop summarily returning migrants and asylum seekers to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in some cases with force, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has...
It’s not an altogether pleasant experience these days to put the words ‘Poland’ and ‘women’s rights’ into Google. A whole raft of articles appear suggesting that...
The Polish government is targeting women’s rights activists and organisations, putting women’s rights and safety at risk, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report...
Armenians in the country’s capital Yerevan and other large cities have been protesting parliament’s decision to elect former president Serzh Sarkisian (pictured above)...
In April, news broke of a widespread anti-gay purge in Chechnya; in September, gay men and transgender women were rounded up in Azerbaijan; and in October reports...
