Voting rights have been under siege in the U.S. in recent years, with charges of attempted electoral interference, legislation that seeks to make access to the polls more difficult, and gerrymandering ...

Spain will move to impose direct rule on Catalonia this weekend, after the region’s leader refused to drop his bid for independence. A statement from the Prime Minister’s office Thursday said the ...

BARCELONA — Catalonia declared itself an independent republic on Friday. But nobody is sure how long it will last. Within hours of an emotional vote by the Catalan Parliament, Spain’s prime minister ...

Catalonia might be the separatist region making headlines at the moment but Europe has many other separatist movements that are closely watching developments in northeastern Spain. Separatist ...

Amy Maguire is a Co-Chair of the Indigenous Rights Subcommittee of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and a member of Amnesty International. The vote was a milestone in the century-long struggle for ...

About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional ...