Ten years after of the landmark declaration of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on women’s rights, a significant number of countries in Central and...
Tag - Society
While Serbia tends to rank well on intentional indexes of gender equality, violence against women, including sexual violence, remains a serious problem. Serbia has been...
The influence of Ordo Iuris, a radical – sometimes described as fundamentalist – organisation in Poland, should alarm all of Europe, say rights campaigners...
Romania has made some progress in implementing judicial reform since a Liberal-led government took office in late 2019, but needs to quicken the pace in order to meet...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church split from its Russian counterpart in 2018. We explain why. In October 2018, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially split from its...
Health Tech Venture Lab has announced the finalists of its 2021 accelerator, which feature two groundbreaking start-ups from Central and Eastern Europe. Two healthtech...
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) can lead to greener, more responsible investment. But standards remain irregular: creating common denominators will...
There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long way to go before they can claim to have closed the gender gap, according to a new report from the World Economic...
Oskar Żyndul is the organiser of a campaign determined to shake up what he feels is the often lazy – and heavily contested – linkage of Poles to Catholicism...
War between Russia and Ukraine no longer looks imminent. We speak to locals in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv – who despite some reports to the contrary –...
Romania’s Covid-19 vaccination drive, which began well, is in danger of grinding to a complete halt as supply of jabs begins to exceed demand. When Romania opened...
