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We could all easily be ‘Aco’: Slovenia’s controversial new law seeks to address the challenge of Roma integration
21 Dec 2025 05:16 GMT
… protests over the murder, Slovenia’s government introduced the … repeat offenders in southeastern Slovenia have.
In mid-November … across the border in Austria.
Jernej Zupančič, who … “treats identity as suspicion.”
Amnesty International condemned the measure as …
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EU Parliament adopts resolution condemning human rights situation in Azerbaijan
19 Dec 2025 20:27 GMT
… , opposition leaders, journalists, academics, and human rights defenders’.
The EU Parliament resolution … 2024 while visiting Baku from Prague, where he is a PhD … Turkophobic tendencies are clearly evident’.
Human rights lawyer Samad Rahimli, who lives …
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Belarus: All arbitrarily detained human rights defenders must be released
19 Dec 2025 05:52 GMT
… for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights Center Viasna
Human Rights Center, Georgia
ILI … Human Rights)
Austausch e.V., Germany
Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC)
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Hungary
Human Rights …
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Top Human Rights News from 2025
19 Dec 2025 03:13 GMT
… year, HRW covered many human rights topics and crises around … free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.
6. Israeli … into regular bloodbaths.
7. Hungary';s Orbán Government Withdraws … from the ICC
Hungary’s withdrawal from the …
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China’s clean energy investments abroad are a boon for climate, but human rights and the environment are a different story
18 Dec 2025 13:19 GMT
… environmental, social and human rights impacts. Chinese-built … plants outside Debrecen, Hungary. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz … Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros, the logo of Amnesty International … society groups and human rights advocates say this …
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Czechia between 1989 and 2025: From Velvet hopes to right-wing populism
19 Dec 2025 22:56 GMT
… of Czechoslovakia – following crucial events in Poland, Hungary and East … democracy, liberty and human rights. These values were … post-socialist countries in Central Europe, Czechia, amid the chaotic … Russia, but also Slovakia and Hungary and their current …
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Poland revives landmines to protect Eastern border
19 Dec 2025 19:27 GMT
… for defensive deployment along Poland’s eastern frontier, … expanded military presence. Warsaw insists the step is … apply in extreme circumstances. Human rights organisations have warned that … an approaching conflict, Poland’s decision illustrates a …
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European Parliament endorses Slovenian-led initiative for safe abortion
19 Dec 2025 12:00 GMT
… policies in line with international human rights standards.
The resolution in … today and that little Slovenia is taking the fight … abstentions.
While those five Slovenian MEPs voted against the resolution … care, the other four Slovenian members of the European …
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We Stood It. We Had No Choice.
22 Dec 2025 14:50 GMT
… stay. Instructions came from Prague ministries on what needed to … and the government commissioner for human rights for support, but so … is evident throughout the Czech Republic, although the data … Czech Press Photo awards and a second prize in the 2009 UNICEF …
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Kazakhstan’s Anti-LGBT ‘Jihad’
22 Dec 2025 13:30 GMT
… an external threat. Human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis calls … as an alternative to universal human rights.
Does ‘Propaganda’ work? … and even Kazakhstan.
UNICEF data for 2025 show … authorities cite Hungary, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, and Poland, while ignoring …