The judgement provides a clear framework for what equality laws mean, but it remains to be seen what will change.

A crackdown on demonstrators in Turkey, the detention of the mayor of Istanbul and a clampdown on pro-EU protesters in Georgia – there is currently no shortage of challenges to the Council of ...

Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the ...

A new ruling from Europe's highest human rights court has shed long-overdue light on one of Italy's most devastating ...

The Supreme Court's decision to rule that woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex” possibly showed that the UK is not meeting its obligations under the ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that the Netherlands violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family ...

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is an unusual semi-secret judicial body, based London but capable of sitting in ...

When Amanda Knox was behind bars in Italy, she befriended an Italian priest, Don Saulo. Knox, now a mother of two, has ...

A blog by Hari Krishna Nibanupudi reflecting on how a new UN convention could put older people at the heart of climate ...

Andrea Lucidi was denied permission to cross the border under the pretext that he is illegally taking cash and a camera drone to Russia even though he was in possession of these when entering Estonia ...

An American academic has been arrested in Thailand on accusations of insulting the monarchy, prompting the United States late ...

The European Union's border protection agency on Tuesday said it is investigating multiple alleged human rights violations by Greece in dealing with illegal immigration.