Hate crime is the most severe expression of discrimination, and a core fundamental rights abuse. Various initiatives target such crime, but most hate crime across the EU remains unreported and unprosecuted, leaving victims without redress. To counter this trend, it is essential for Member States to improve access to justice for victims. Drawing on interviews with representatives from criminal courts, public prosecutors’ offices, the police, and NGOs involved in supporting hate crime victims, this report sheds light on the diverse hurdles that impede victims’ access to justice and the proper recording of hate crime.

Making justice systems more child‑friendly improves
the protection of children, enhances their meaningful
participation and at the same time improves
the operation of justice. The findings in this summary
can provide Member States with useful tools
to identify barriers, gaps or weaknesses in their
judicial proceedings, especially in the process of
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Each year thousands of children take part in criminal and civil judicial proceedings, affected by parental divorce
or as victims or witnesses to crime. Such proceedings can be stressful for anyone. The European Union Agency
for Fundamental Rights (FRA) investigated whether children’s rights are respected in these proceedings.

Wenn die Justizsysteme kindgerechter und kinderfreundlicher
gestaltet werden, so verbessert dies
den Schutz für Kinder, erleichtert deren sinnvolle
Beteiligung und verbessert zugleich die Arbeitsweise
der Justiz. Mit den in dieser Zusammenfassung
dargestellten Erkenntnissen erhalten die Mitgliedstaaten
ein hilfreiches Instrumentarium an die Hand,
mit dessen Unterstützung sich Hindernisse, Lücken
oder Schwachstellen bei Gerichtsverfahren – insbesondere
im Zuge der Umsetzung und Anwendung
der einschlägigen EU Richtlinien – ermitteln lassen.

Rendre les systèmes judiciaires mieux adaptés aux
enfants accroît leur protection, renforce leur participation
effective et améliore aussi le fonctionnement de la justice. Les résultats présentés dans ce résumé
peuvent donner aux États membres des outils pour
leur permettre de détecter les obstacles, les lacunes
ou les faiblesses dans leurs procédures judiciaires, en
particulier dans la transposition et la mise en oeuvre
des directives pertinentes de l’UE.

In light of a lack of comparable data on the respect, protection and fulfilment of the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, FRA launched in 2012 its European Union (EU) online survey of LGBT persons’ experiences of discrimination, violence and harassment.

This FRA survey is the first of its kind on violence against women across the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It is based on interviews with 42,000 women across the EU, who were asked about their experiences of physical, sexual and psychological violence, including incidents of intimate partner violence (‘domestic violence’).

Dieses Gutachten beleuchtet die Auswirkgungen des Rahmenbeschlusses über Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit unter besondererBerücksichtigung der Rechte von Opfern von Straftaten.