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Cooperation

Networking and cooperation

The Agency works to support an environment in which human rights promotion and protection at all levels of society and governance will become a natural reflex activity.
Engaging with the Agency's stakeholders, the wider human rights community, those at the national and local level responsible for providing services and those supporting people who make use of the services is seen as an essential part of supporting this development. This lies at the heart of the Agency's external relations and networking strategy.
Another key component is adapting the Agency's work to make use of the new communication and networking environment - an environment witnessing a democratisation of information collection and dissemination and greater activity via social networks and social media.

Cooperation on EU level 


The Agency, as a European Union (EU) body, tasked to undertake its activities within the EU's human rights framework, works with the EU institutions and advisory bodies such the European Parliament (EP), the Council of the EU, the European Commission (EC), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). Moreover, the Agency cooperates with the EU Communities Bodies such as other agencies covering areas which cut across the various fields of fundamental rights, EU countries and their national and local governments, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), Equality Bodies, civil society and those who can influence the human rights agenda within countries and at the EU level. 

The Agency's Fundamental Rights Platform brings together many of the key civil society organizations working on human rights issues and provides the Agency with a greater sense of what is happening on the ground and how the Agency's work can make human rights promotion and protection more visible and effective.

  

At the international level, the Agency works closely with the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), especially the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), as well as with the United Nations, in particular with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNHCR and UNESCO.

The relations between the Agency and the Council of Europe are governed by the Agreement between the European Community and the Council of Europe on cooperation between the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe. 

 

 Cooperation on international level

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