A news report examines recent laws aimed at undermining freedom of expression, assembly and association in Russia.

Civil society is being suppressed in Belarus by a repressive government that will not tolerate any form of criticism.

Lubou Kavalyoua received a letter from the Belarus Supreme Court on 17 March 2012, informing her that her son, Uladzslau Kavalyou, had been executed. She still doesn't know where he was buried. Here, she shares her story.

On the eve of International Roma Day on 8 April, Amnesty International says the European Union is not doing enough to end discrimination.

Over 200 people, mostly Romanian Roma, were forcibly evicted this morning from an informal settlement in greater Paris.

Sometimes a simple but potentially revolutionary idea can change the world for the better. But it often takes a crisis to galvanize people to take action, and that's how the idea for a global Arms Trade Treaty was born.

In a case highlighting the risks people take when fleeing conflict in their countries to seek refuge in Europe, the authorities of Lesvos continue their search for the bodies of asylum-seekers who had attempted to reach the Greek island.

One of the organizers of a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan goes missing as authorities intensify a crackdown on dissent ahead of the Presidential elections in October.

European Court of Human Rights rules that Austria discriminated by refusing to consider a woman's request to adopt her female partner’s child.