Violence against women remains widespread in the European Union (EU). This joint report by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presents detailed findings from the EU gender-based violence survey. It offers in-depth analysis of the scale, nature and drivers of violence and exposes the structural gender inequality. Building on the 2024 publication, EU gender-based violence survey - Key results, and following up on FRA’s 2014 report, Violence against women: an EU-wide survey, this report tracks trends over the last decade across the EU. Eurostat, FRA, and EIGE jointly conducted the survey. It is based on over 100,000 interviews covering all 27 EU Member States.
This FRA Opinion on the draft simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards informs the European Commission ahead of the standards’ adoption. This Opinion applies a risk-based human rights approach to assess whether the proposed simplifications preserve essential safeguards for people adversely affected by corporate activities. The Opinion provides practical, proportionate suggestions to strengthen the simplified framework and ensure that efficiency gains do not come at the expense of fundamental rights.
The start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the global community and gave rise to a
series of urgent fundamental rights challenges across Europe. While much attention has focused on the scale of devastation and its wider impact on all Ukrainians, the war has also inflicted profound personal harm. This report sheds light on the violence, sexual harassment and exploitation experienced by women displaced from Ukraine. Drawing on a survey and in-depth interviews with women from Ukraine, the report documents the prevalence, forms and patterns of gender-based violence and sets out practical measures to improve safety, access to justice and support.
Making homes energy efficient and equipping them with clean energy can help the EU to reach its climate and energy goals. These measures improve living conditions and support fighting energy poverty, but they can also compromise affordability and displace low-income families. This report looks at housing renovation and clean energy installation programmes and wider EU climate and energy transition policies. It analyses their impact on fundamental rights. It finds that measures often inadvertently exclude people or risk exacerbating existing inequalities. Climate and social policies must comply with fundamental rights obligations. This report builds on FRA’s 2025 publication: Towards a fundamental rights-compliant European Green Deal.
Artificial Intelligence comes with both benefits and risks. Safe AI use that accounts for fundamental rights is thus crucial. While the 2024 EU AI Act was a milestone in this regard, its broad definitions regarding AI systems and high-risk AI could introduce loopholes for fundamental rights compliance. This report offers an empirical basis for much-needed practical guidance on the Act’s implementation. Based on interviews with AI developers, sellers, and users, FRA addresses challenges of its use in critical domains, like asylum, education, and employment. Our findings help guide next steps in realising the AI Act’s potential to ensure responsible innovation.
Climate change affects the daily lives of everyone in the EU and has significant environmental, economic, social and health impacts. To tackle this, the European Green Deal was adopted in 2019. This report examines the Green Deal from a fundamental rights perspective, with the aim of protecting the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all. It highlights the lack of fundamental rights in EU climate policy and the need to incorporate these rights into future legislation. It also considers how applying a human-rights-based approach to climate policy could support a fair and inclusive transition.
This report presents key results of the EU gender-based violence survey based on data from all 27 Member States. The report focuses on the overall prevalence of physical violence or threats and/or sexual violence by any perpetrator, violence perpetrated by women’s intimate partners and by other people (non-partners) and women’s experiences of sexual harassment at work.
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024 analyses the year’s developments in fundamental rights. It focuses on the most pressing fundamental rights concerns facing Europe in 2023: the cost-of-living crisis, rights concerns at the EU’s external borders and migration, and threats to democracy. Re-structured, this year’s new approach is a shorter and sharper analysis. It also presents FRA’s opinions on these developments, including a summary of the evidence supporting these opinions.
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2023 reviews major developments in the field in 2022, identifying both achievements and areas of concern. It also presents FRA’s opinions on these developments, including a synopsis of the evidence supporting these opinions.
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2022 reviews major developments in the field in 2021, identifying both achievements and areas of concern. It also presents FRA’s opinions on these developments, including a synopsis of the evidence supporting these opinions.
This focus looks at the impact of the pandemic on social rights. It examines the measures in national recovery and resilience plans that address the social vulnerabilities among a variety of population groups in the EU, including women, children and young people in situations of vulnerability, people with disabilities, older people, Roma and people in precarious working conditions.
Le présent focus s’intéresse à l’impact de la pandémie sur les droits sociaux. Il examine les mesures des plans nationaux de relance et de résilience qui visent les vulnérabilités sociales de divers groupes de population dans l’UE, notamment les femmes, les enfants et les jeunes en situation de vulnérabilité, les personnes handicapées, les personnes âgées, les Roms et les personnes dont les conditions de travail sont précaires.
This paper presents statistical survey data for the EU on how often people are stopped by the police, in what kind of situations they are stopped, the action taken by the police during stops, and views on whether or not the police acted respectfully.
В настоящото резюме се представят основните
изводи от първия доклад на FRA, които се
базират на проучването ѝ за основните права.
В проучването са събрани данни от около 35 000
лица относно техния опит, възприятия и мнения
по редица въпроси, които са обхванати по
различен начин от правата на човека.
Toto shrnutí představuje hlavní poznatky z první
zprávy agentury FRA, která vychází z průzkumu
o základních právech. Průzkum shromáždil od
přibližně 35 000 lidí údaje o jejich zkušenostech,
vnímání a názorech na celou řadu otázek, které
různým způsobem zasahují do oblasti lidských práv.
Dette sammendrag indeholder de vigtigste
erfaringer fra FRA’s første rapport, der er baseret
på dets spørgeundersøgelse om grundlæggende
rettigheder. I undersøgelsen blev der indsamlet
data fra ca. 35 000 personer om deres erfaringer,
opfattelse og mening vedrørende en række
spørgsmål, der er omfattet af forskellige
menneskerettigheder.
Diese Zusammenfassung stellt die wichtigsten
Ergebnisse aus dem ersten Bericht der FRA zu ihrer
Erhebung über Grundrechte vor. Im Rahmen dieser
Erhebung wurden Daten von rund 35 000 Menschen
über ihre Erfahrungen, Wahrnehmungen und
Meinungen zu einer Reihe von Fragen
zusammengetragen, die auf unterschiedliche Art
und Weise mit Menschenrechten zusammenhängen.
Η παρούσα περίληψη παρουσιάζει τα κυριότερα
στοιχεία της πρώτης έκθεσης του FRA η οποία
βασίζεται στην έρευνά του για τα θεμελιώδη
δικαιώματα. Για τις ανάγκες της έρευνας
συλλέχθηκαν δεδομένα από περίπου 35 000 πολίτες
σχετικά με τις εμπειρίες, τις αντιλήψεις και τη γνώμη
τους για μια σειρά θεμάτων που άπτονται με
ποικίλους τρόπους των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων.
The EU is founded on the values of democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Yet these values, and discussions on fundamental rights at the EU and Member State level, can seem remote in people’s daily lives. With this in mind, FRA explored what people understand, know and experience with respect to their fundamental rights in practice. The resulting data provide comprehensive and comparable evidence on these aspects.
Este resumen presenta las principales percepciones
del primer informe de la Agencia de los Derechos
Fundamentales de la Unión Europea (FRA) basado
en su encuesta sobre los derechos fundamentales.
La encuesta recabó datos de unas 35 000 personas
sobre sus experiencias, percepciones y opiniones
en relación con una serie de cuestiones
relacionadas, de diversas maneras, con los
derechos humanos.
