30 December 08 - SPECIAL 60th - Nearly 70 years after its civil war, Spain has yet to establish an accurate tally of the victims of repression during Franco’s regime. Thousands of citizens want to know where their murdered relatives were buried. No investigations, no trial, were held. Only now is the (...) Read

30 December 08 - The alarm bell is ringing in Central Europe: as the region braces itself for an economic crisis, extremism grows and gains popular sympathy by targeting the Roma. Read

7 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT Svetozar Ciplic, Minister for Minorities and Human Rights in Serbia committed his government on Friday 5th December to put an end to the after effects of the Balkan conflict. As Serbia’s human rights record was scrutinised during the universal periodic review (UPR) (...) Read

3 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT Luxembourg had its human rights record reviewed at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday 2nd December. Like other EU members, Luxembourg has still not signed the international convention on migrant workers. It has also not ratified other human rights instruments, like the (...) Read

3 December 08 - The grandiose fresco painted by the Spanish artist, Miquel Barcelo, which was inaugurated on the 18th November is crumbling said some diplomats at the UN in Geneva. The UN assert there was no incident Read

14 November 08 - The Council of Europe has criticised certain police practices in Switzerland, in particular the alleged use of force during arrests by some Geneva officers Read

11 November 08 - Human rights groups in Balkans believe former prosecution spokesperson Florence Hartmann is unfairly singled out by the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She is accused of revealing elements of confidential decisions in the the trial of Slobodan (...) Read

10 November 08 - From The Telegraph Promises hastily made in opposition are often repented at leisure in government. Today, exactly 10 years after the passage of the Human Rights Act through Parliament, ministers have not exactly put out the bunting in celebration, though its chief architect Jack Straw, now (...) Read

15 October 08 - From Emportal “Montenegro has taken many positive steps in recent years to upgrade its legislation, but implementation remains weak and standards do not yet find their way into the courtrooms in a consistent way”, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas (...) Read

10 October 08 - When it seemed that the atrocities committed during the 1936-1939 Spanish civil war and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco were buried once and for all, the debate has been reopened. Read