Saudi blogger Raif Badawi (pictured) has won the EU's prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, after a decision of the European Parliament's group leaders this...
Back to work after the summer recess, the European Parliament has plenty in its in-tray: climate change, foreign policy, illegal immigration, refugees, the EU's 2015 budget,...
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzaï made a passionate plea for more education as she accepted the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in Strasbourg on 20...
Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize...
North West MEP Sajjad Karim has tipped Malala Yousafzai (pictured) for the EU Sakharov Peace Prize for championing women's rights to education despite fresh threats against...
Belarusian political prisoners Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, US spying whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pakistani campaigner for girls' education Malala Yousafzai are the shortlisted...