Kyrgyzstan’s new constitution will provide more power to the country’s president, and falls short of international standards, says Human Rights Watch. A draft constitution submitted to the Kyrgyz parliament in February undermines human...
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Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
Amnesty International has welcomed the acquittal of three LGBT+ activists who drew attention to homophobia in Poland by pasting images of the Virgin Mary with a rainbow...
Throughout the communist period, besides the countries now referred to as emerging Europe, there used to be another state – the German Democratic Republic, more widely...
Several countries in emerging Europe, all in close proximity to Russia, maintain a system of mandatory military service for young men. They argue that conscription is...
Latvia is the only country in emerging Europe with a perfect score in the World Bank’s latest Women, Business and the Law 2021 report. Countries are inching toward...
Some countries in emerging Europe have successfully dealt with their stray animal problems. Ukraine still has a long way to go, but technology – including Tinder...
Save the Children is the latest human rights group to join calls for concerted action to assist refugees and migrants in the Western Balkans. Refugees and migrants...
Hungary faces a large fine unless it complies with a ruling from the European Court of Justice over the funding of NGOs. The European Union has taken an key step towards...
Just days after a carefully staged-managed All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, convened as a show of support for the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus has...
While happy to exploit the tourism potential of the Ottoman heritage in their biggest cities, countries in the Balkans are less keen to preserve mosques in areas...
A landmark legal case which was brought this week before the European Court of Justice has highlighted the plight of same-sex parents across Central and Eastern Europe...
