Belgium made history on Sunday as the first country in the world to allow sex workers to sign formal employment contracts — granting them access to sick days, maternity pay and pension. The new law ...

Photographer Cédric Gerbehaye has spent the past nine years working on long-term documentary projects, often in underreported regions including South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A ...

For such a small country, Belgium has been a major European battleground over the centuries. Occupied by Germany during both world wars, it experienced an economic boom in the post-war years to become ...

Belgium has voted to extend euthanasia laws to cover children. The Belgian Senate backed the plan on Friday, which means the controversial law will now cover terminally-ill children. It means Belgium ...

Workers in Belgium will be able to request a four-day work week without losing salary, as the government overhauled labor practices Tuesday in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, becoming the latest ...

Belgium will ban disposable e-cigarettes from January 1, aiming to protect youth health and support the EU's goal of a tobacco-free generation by 2040 Wildly popular with young people for their ...

Emma Meesseman had to remind herself not to look into the crowd too closely. Tucked into every corner of the gymnasium was someone she knew — a former teacher, a neighbor, a friend of a friend. The ...

Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region.