Africa
Sudan’s General Burhan: an Islamist then and now
In trying to understand Sudan, and the civil war that has killed up to 150,000 people in the last three years—a toll twice as bloody as Gaza—it is important from...
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Can Strasbourg Catch Up With the CRPD?
Europe Can No Longer Defend Article 5(1)(e) Europe’s human-rights system is facing a difficult question: can the European Court of Human Rights move closer to the disability-rights standard set by...
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[Press Release] European Scientologists Expand Human Rights Education in Europe and Abroad
From Danish classrooms and teacher outreach to Geneva forums and projects reaching South Asia and New York, Scientology-supported initiatives continue to frame human-rights literacy as a practical civic tool KINGNEWSWIRE...
Human Rights
UN Human Rights Council Opens 2026 Session in Geneva
From Afghanistan and Sudan to Ukraine and child rights, the 61st regular session maps the year’s global human-rights agenda The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is convening its sixty-first...
Europe
Scientology launches youth guide promoting EU VALUES
KINGNEWSWIRE / PRESS RELEASE / BRUSSELS, Belgium — 19 February 2026 — The European Office of the Church of Scientology for Public Affairs and Human Rights has launched “Europe’s Values, Your Rights”, a new...
Europe
Dobrota psych hospital allegations revive CRPD calls to end institutions
A complaint by Montenegro’s Human Rights Action, prompted by leaked preliminary findings linked to the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee, has put the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Dobrota back under...
Health
Europe’s Coercive Psychiatry Draft Protocol Faces a Rights Reckoning
After years of criticism from disability-rights advocates, UN experts and civil society, the Council of Europe is under renewed pressure to abandon its draft protocol on involuntary placement and treatment...
Economy
EU Funding at Risk When Public Tenders Impose Faith Tests
When a public authority makes access to a contract, job, or subsidy conditional on a declaration about personal belief or religious practice, the issue is not only constitutional or human-rights...
Council of Europe
PACE unanimously rejects a possible new protocol on involuntary measures in mental health
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) in a unanimous decision reiterated its long-term position against a possible new protocol on the involuntary placement and involuntary treatment of...
Council of Europe
Senator Carmen Leyte: “We cannot endorse a text that could reinforce coercive measures”
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) debated involuntary and coercive measures in psychiatry. In a unanimous decision the Assembly reiterated its long-term position against such measures and...