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This guide provides practical instructions on how to integrate fundamental rights in foresight exercises. It is for policymakers and practitioners, and explains how to consider fundamental rights throughout the foresight process: from scanning for future changes to building potential scenarios, as well as stress-testing ideas and communicating results. It accompanies the FRA report, ‘Fundamental rights in an uncertain future: Strategic foresight for Europe 2040’, which explores how future changes could affect fundamental rights and sets out ways to protect rights in the face of major transitions.

Europe’s future will be shaped by technology, climate and economic pressures, demographic changes and challenges to democracy and security, and by the choices we make in response. Strategic foresight explores how these changes could unfold. FRA’s strategic foresight work aims to bring fundamental rights into decisions while there is still time to shape them.
This report explores how future changes could affect fundamental rights. It sets out ways to protect rights in the face of major transitions and helps institutions prepare before decisions become urgent. It is accompanied by practical guidance, ‘Embedding fundamental rights in foresight: A guide for practitioners’, designed to support practitioners integrate fundamental rights in foresight exercises.

FRA and EIGE conducted the European Union gender-based violence survey (EU-GBV survey) in eight EU Member States – Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Romania and Sweden. This report describes the measures taken to carry out the survey, which resulted in a final dataset of 15,447 interviews across the eight survey countries.

The Roma Survey 2024 and its predecessors describe discrimination and bias-motivated harassment and violence experienced by Roma and Travellers across Europe. The Survey provides data which policy makers can use to address these high-priority agenda issues and most importantly assess progress over time as regards equality and non-discrimination in key areas of life. This technical report provides a detailed overview of the survey methodology used by FRA when collecting the survey data.

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.

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.

This report looks at antisemitism in the EU, focusing on what can be done to address gaps in recording and inconsistencies in data collection. It highlights existing tools and guidance for Member States to improve their recording systems. The analysis is based on official administrative data and information from publicly available sources across EU Member States, as well as Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Detailed country overviews are available for all countries covered. Antisemitism has been monitored by FRA since 2004. This report builds on the 2024 publication, ‘Jewish People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism’.

This report looks at the breadth and depth of violence and neglect faced by people with disabilities living in institutions. It highlights the shortcomings by EU Member States in preventing violence and protecting those who are at a higher risk of experiencing it, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Based on research across all EU Member States and FRA observer candidate countries, the report calls for better protection, stronger prevention of violence, and clear accountability. It urges the EU and its Member States to implement their obligations around equality and fundamental rights.