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Hungary

Hungary votes on anti-LGBT bills amid protests

Thousands of protesters urged the Hungarian Parliament to vote against bills banning any content portraying or promoting homosexuality to young people.

Moments

How LGBTQ+ people are excluded from freedom of movement in the EU

When some countries don’t even recognise a same-sex registered partner under certain circumstances, just how free is the EU’s free movement?

Gaza

Fragile peace holds in Gaza but tensions with Israel remain

On Friday protesters hurled stones at Israeli security forces amid clashes in the village of Baita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry claimed a 26-year-old man was killed and two more injured by live fire.

Belarus

Belarusian opposition politician sentenced to 7 years in prison

Pavel Seviarynets was sentenced along with six other activists on Tuesday amid international fury over Minsk's forced diversion of a passenger jet to arrest an opposition journalist.

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France

France's top court rejects move to restrict images of police

France's constitutional council rejects controversial move to restrict images of police

Norway

Two Israeli groups excluded from Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund has excluded two Israeli groups involved in developing settlements in the West Bank.

Poland

Diplomats from 40 countries call on Poland to protect LGBTQ rights

The Polish government has come under international criticism in recent years for promoting "LGBT free zones" and fueling homophobic rhetoric.

Cry Like A Boy

Women who risk Europe’s migration routes face stigma back in Guinea

Fatoumata is one of the few Guinean women who took an irregular migration route to Europe. But when she had to return home, she faced a similar kind of stigma that follows men who fail on their migration journeys.

Brazil

Brazil: Rio's deadly police shootout prompts claims of abuse

25 people died in a massive police raid against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela.

Afghanistan

Euroviews. Afghanistan has never needed EU support more than it does now | View

"This is a terrifying moment for women in Afghanistan," writes Heather Barr from Human Rights Watch. "The April 14 announcement that US troops will leave Afghanistan before September 11 has created a new level of fear in a country already devastated by 40 years of war."

Israel

Israel guilty of apartheid and persecution, says rights watchdog

Human Rights Watch joins a growing number of rights groups who view the conflict not primarily as a land dispute but as a single regime in which Palestinians are systematically denied basic rights granted to Jews.

Denmark

Denmark accused of 'sacrificing the future' of Syrian children

Denmark has said it is safe for Syrian families to return to their home country, but immigration and children's rights advocates do not agree

United Arab Emirates

UN renews call for Princess Latifa's release

Experts mandated by the UN said on Tuesday that they "are alarmed" that they have yet to receive "concrete information from the authorities" on Latifa's situation.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul awarded 2020 Vaclav Havel prize

Loujain al-Hathloul received the Council of Europe's Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The activist had pushed to end a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia.

Serbia

Afghan refugee speaks out on landmark Serbia border police case

In December 2020 Serbia's Constitutional Court ruled that border control officers had violated the rights of 17 Afghan refugees they abandoned in a forest in freezing cold temperatures near the Bulgarian border.

Russia

Hunger-striking Navalny describes threats to force-feed him

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials have threatened to force-feed him and end the hunger he started on March 31.

Myanmar

Myanmar could spiral into 'full-blown conflict' like Syria, UN warns

Michelle Bachelet said the repression in Myanmar "clearly echoes" the situation in Syria in 2011 because "there too, we saw peaceful protests met with unnecessary and clearly disproportionate force."

Russia

Russian feminist artist on trial for alleged 'pornography'

Yulia Tsvetkova faces up to six years in prison for posting artwork depicting female anatomy online.

Russia

'Putin can't afford to let Alexei Navalny live,' says Bill Browder

Russia is carrying out a “slow-motion assassination” of the Kremlin critic, says Bill Browder, whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian jail.

World News

France refutes UN report claiming its forces targeted Mali wedding

The UN mission in Mali said a French airstrike in January targeted a group "overwhelmingly composed of civilians" in violation of international law.