Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana Mahmood

Michael O’Flaherty warned of a tendency to see human rights of different groups as a ‘zero-sum game’.

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Voluntary organisations forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property Charities have warned of growing racial abuse, intimidation and threats of violence towards their staff and beneficiaries amid increasingly toxic rhetoric around immigration and race by politicians and extremist activists. Voluntary organisations say they are being forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property – a trend described by one charity head as in danger of becoming the “new normal” – after being targeted. Continue reading...

Bowing to pressure to reform the refugee convention and asylum system would be a "catastrophic error", the head of the UN agency for refugees said on Monday.

EU funds spent abroad to tackle irregular migration may end up benefiting people slapped with international sanctions for rights abuses, according to a leaked internal European Commission document.

De aanpassingen komen uit de koker van de regering van premier Fico, een pro-Russische populist. De herschreven grondwet moet volgens hem gaan dienen als "dam tegen progressieve stromingen".

The approval of amendments also gives Slovak national law precedence over EU law

A planned constitutional rewrite has sparked alarm in Bratislava and Brussels alike, as critics warn a new sovereignty clause could let Slovakia sidestep EU law and international rulings

Van alle migranten die asiel aanvragen maar niet krijgen, verlaat nu slechts 20 procent de Europese Unie.

Strasbourg 13/06/2025

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety More than 150 lawyers, human rights, refugee and environmental organisations have said they are being “pressured into silence” after some received rape and death threats from far-right and anti-migrant protesters. At least two refugee NGOs that have been supporting asylum seekers who have received notices from the Home Office that they will be forcibly removed to France under Labour’s controversial “one in, one out” scheme have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety. Continue reading...

Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inu...

The European Court of Human Rights is under attack — again. But the main obstacle to its effective functioning remains the reluctance of some governments to fully implement its rulings and tackle the...

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumat...