BIRN talks to Lucie Hrda, a Czech lawyer who became known for championing the rights of victims of sexual and domestic abuse, but has faced a backlash recently for representing – as a defence attorney ...

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia, battered by months of nationwide protests, is struggling to weather his biggest ...

Many non-governmental organizations in the Western Balkans have been left stranded after U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly ...

New law, which has yet to be adopted by the other house in the entity parliament, gives police much greater powers to intervene in cases of domestic violence, detain suspects – and monitor offenders ...

A Tennessee man who has decided to represent himself against capital murder charges in the deaths of three people during a daylong series of shootings in Memphis has told a ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Four weeks before Germany’s snap election, the political temperature is rising as the campaign shifts onto the contentious terrain of migration and Elon Musk steps up his support for the far-right AfD ...

“Most women in my village went ... and all other victims during the 1990s in the Western Balkans, UNDP’s regional project “EU Support to Confidence Building in the Western Balkans” increases ...

For the fourth consecutive year, the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) has opened nominations for the Western Balkans Women Entrepreneurs of the Year 2024. Six more women entrepreneurs from the ...

attack out of the Gaza Strip triggered the war there. In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and ...

The family went to Egypt first before paying traffickers $350 (£338) to take them to Libya, where they had been told life would be better and they would be able to find jobs in cleaning and ...

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