• Published by Pavel Moiseev

    Garbage Winds Getting Stronger

    Why a garbage crisis has struck Russia and what has been the role of the new waste management reform, why the Soviet system of waste collection and recycling collapsed and how residents of Arkhangelsk and other Russian regions are fighting for their environmental rights—this and more in an interview with lawyer Pavel Moiseev, Head of the Legal Department at the Bellona Environmental Rights Centre.
  • Published by Theresa Bender-Säbelkampf

    Austria’s Going Backwards on Gender Equality

    Since the swearing-in of the incumbent Austrian government in December 2017, journalists, feminists and representatives of women’s rights organisations all over the country regularly protest against the attempted changes made by the government in the country’s gender politics achieved during the last 50 years
  • Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva

    Incendiary Content

    The Council of Europe and the European Union have been trying to curb hate speech on the internet, but social networks are at loggerheads with the human rights paradigm.
19/04/2018
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 19/04/2018

The Blacklist

The Russian State Duma aims at to block websites containing false and defamatory information. Human rights defenders warn that its initiative could become an instrument of censorship.
12/04/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 12/04/2018

Helen Darbishire: “Right of access to information is one of the instruments to defend democracy”

Access Info Europe defends and promotes the right to know on the European continent. We met with them in Madrid to find out what has changed in field of access to information since 2006.
03/04/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 03/04/2018

Prisoner No. 7

Seventy years after Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance in the Lubyanka prison, his family is suing the FSB for access to prison archives.
01/03/2018
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 01/03/2018

Nani Jansen Reventlow: “Time to fight back for our digital rights”

All over Europe, digital rights are under attack, and numerous organizations are already advocating and going to court to protect human rights in the digital sphere. To facilitate collaboration between digital rights actors and provide funds for strategic litigation for that cause, Digital Freedom Fund was established in Berlin.
19/02/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 19/02/2018

It is like that phrase “don’t think about white bear”

Polish law professor Monika Platek reflects on the controversial Polish law on criminal liability for publicly implicating the state or people of Poland in Nazi crimes.
15/02/2018
Published by Yuliia Ostrovskaya at 15/02/2018

Dissolved for international solidarity

"Foreign agents" law now enforced against Russian trade unions.
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    20/08/2019
    Home Office wants border restrictions imposed immediately on 31 October – despite warnings of people trapped in legal limbo.
    Source: independent.co.uk
  • German police to restructure as threat of extremism grows
    20/08/2019
    Germany's Federal Criminal Police (BKA) wants to set up a new central unit to fight right-wing extremism and hate crimes. An additional 440 jobs are expected to be created for the purpose.
    Source: dw.com
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    20/08/2019
    President says bid would be ‘essentially a real estate deal’. The government of the semi-autonomous Danish territory insisted it was not for sale. The Danish prime minister called any discussion of a sale “absurd”.
    Source: theguardian.com
  • Russia’s draft foreign ownership law not aimed at making Yandex state-owned – lawmaker
    20/08/2019
    The draft law submitted to Russia’s Duma in late July proposes limiting foreign ownership in internet firms to 20% if they are considered by a special commission to be a “significant source of information”.
    Source: reuters.com
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    20/08/2019
    Children were brought from DR Congo to Belgium and adopted by families who had been told they were orphans.
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