9 July 08 - Supporters of a ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland have handed in the necessary signatures to force a very controversial nationwide ballot. Read

7 July 08 - On July 3, the appeals chamber of the Hague tribunal acquitted former Bosnian commander Naser Oric of crimes committed against Serbs in the Srebrenica area during the 1992-95 conflict. It raised mixed reaction in Bosnia and (...) Read

23 June 08 - Balkans NGOs want to found a special regional commission capable of establishing a coherent account of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Read

19 June 08 - In what has been described as one of the European Union’s "darkest days", the European parliament has voted to allow rejected asylum-seekers be detained for up to 18 months before being deported. Read

16 June 08 - The European Union has been urged to impose sanctions on Sudan over its refusal to apprehend two men accused of crimes against humanity in the country’s deeply troubled western province of Darfur. Read

12 June 08 - In Romania, no one has been convicted for political crimes perpetrated under the Communist regime of Nicola Ceausescu. Marius Oprea succeeded recently in getting consideration of his proposed law to require the pensions of former Securitate officers to be shared with political (...) Read

27 May 08 - A Croatian non-government organisation has called for Serbian and Croatian war crimes prosecutors to investigate allegations of abuse at Yugoslav-army run camps in Serbia during the early Nineties. Read

23 May 08 - After attending a a session of the Human Rights Council last March, a delegation from the European Parliament, led by French EU deputy Hélène Flautre, has urged EU member states to become more involved in the new UN organ. Read

17 May 08 - A Roma ghetto in Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples, Italy, was burnt down May 14 by locals angry over a reported attempt by a Roma young woman to kidnap a baby. The incident shows that, when it comes to living together with the 10 million Roma, Europeans today have no better answer than the (...) Read

13 May 08 - In a departure from the image of greed and speculation often associated with money markets, a Swiss group of independent financial advisors has launched a global initiative that seeks to promote individual rights of investors that fully embrace fundamental international norms enshrined in the (...) Read