On 29 July, in a landmark vote, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved 'The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act', paving the way for...
The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes – namely war crimes, crimes...
Commission work programme 2015. MEPs will discuss the implementation of Parliament’s political priorities with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Vice-President Frans Timmermans, after the College of...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the United Nations 66 years ago today on 10 December 1948, represented the first global expression of rights...
More than twenty deputies in the European Parliament have written to Federica Mogherini, the EU’s new foreign policy chief, asking her to implement the European Parliament’s...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on 16 May that a new UN report produced by her 34-strong monitoring team in Ukraine shows...
23 January 2014 marked the second anniversary of the arrest of Vladimir Kozlov, leader of the now banned opposition party Alga! Arrested days after having returned from...
