Highlights

  • Periodic updates / Series
    18
    Oktober
    2023
    Civil society organisations struggle to maintain an environment safe from threats and attacks. FRA’s sixth annual update on civic space explores the challenges for organisations across the EU. While there has been significant development since FRA began monitoring the situation in 2018, civil society organisations remain under immense pressure. Abusive lawsuits and attacks against those involved in migrant search and rescue at sea are just some of the challenges identified. This report presents ways forward to protect civil society and human rights.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    11
    Oktober
    2021
    This report proposes a framework for becoming, and functioning as, a ‘human rights city’ in the EU. It includes ‘foundations’, ‘structures’ and ‘tools’ for mayors, local administrations and grassroots organisations to reinforce fundamental rights locally. It is based on existing good practice and expert input by representatives of human rights cities in the EU, academic experts, international organisations and city networks.
  • Seite
    The European Union Fundamental Rights Information System EFRIS is a Human Rights Gateway, bringing together data and information from existing human rights databases, and enables viewing and analysis of relevant assessments of fundamental rights in the EU.
  • Handbook / Guide / Manual
    23
    Oktober
    2018
    As a very modern human rights catalogue containing many rights not found in established bills of rights, the Charter indeed looks good on paper. Those familiar with the
    main principles of EU law can usually quickly recite that the Charter is always binding
    on the EU, and binding on Member States only when they are “implementing EU law”.
    But what does this often-quoted language from Article 51 of the Charter actually mean?
Produkte
8
Juni
2022
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.
8
Juni
2022
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.
8
Juni
2022
Das Jahr 2021 brachte in Bezug auf den Schutz der Grundrechte sowohl Fortschritte als auch Rückschritte. Der Grundrechte-Bericht 2022 der FRA untersucht maßgebliche Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet und zeigt sowohl Erfolge als auch verbleibende Problembereiche auf. Darüber hinaus enthält der Bericht die Stellungnahmen der FRA zu den wichtigsten Entwicklungen in den jeweiligen Themenbereichen und fasst die Informationen, die diesen Stellungnahmen zugrunde liegen, zusammen. Er bietet damit einen kompakten und informativen Überblick über die größten grundrechtlichen Herausforderungen, mit denen die EU und ihre Mitgliedstaaten konfrontiert sind.
27
April
2022
Dieser Leitfaden dient als Orientierungshilfe für Städte, die ihre Bemühungen um die Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte intensivieren möchten. Ziel ist es, Städte und Gemeinden bei der Anwendung höherer Menschenrechtsstandards zu unterstützen. Der Grundgedanke besteht darin, das gegenseitige Lernen im Bereich der Menschen- und Grundrechte anzuregen und zu fördern. Die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA), eine Gruppe von Menschenrechtsstädten und verschiedene Fachleute in der EU haben bei der Erstellung dieses Leitfadens zusammengearbeitet. Der Leitfaden stützt sich auf vielversprechende Praktiken und Erfahrungen von Städten und Regionen, Expertinnen und Experten, internationalen Organisationen und Netzwerken, die im Bericht der FRA „Menschenrechtsstädte in der EU: Ein Rahmen zur Stärkung der Rechte auf lokaler Ebene“ zu finden sind.
14
April
2022
Noch nie war es so wichtig, für Menschenrechte einzutreten! Aber wie? Wie bringt man Menschen zusammen und verschafft sich Gehör?
In the internet age, information travels faster and further than ever before. But so does disinformation, feeding off rumours, prejudices and stereotypes. How can we tackle it? Watch FRA’s practical guide on how to go about tackling disinformation using +INPUT – be positive, identify, narrate, pioneer, unite and track.
The Fundamental Rights Forum is the space for dialogue on human rights challenges facing the EU today.
The Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, welcomes the launch of the Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea), the merger of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) and the Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe (Dafne), on 7 December 2021.
The Fundamental Rights Forum is the space for dialogue on human rights challenges facing the EU today.
Highlights from the Fundamental Rights Forum 2021 – Michael O’Flaherty on the Forum as a roadmap for a vision of hope.
Speaking up for human rights has never been more important!

But how can we bring people together and cut through the noise?
International and regional human rights organisations across Europe have joined forces with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, united behind the '10 keys to effectively communicating human rights'.
11
Oktober
2021
This report proposes a framework for becoming, and functioning as, a ‘human rights city’ in the EU. It includes ‘foundations’, ‘structures’ and ‘tools’ for mayors, local administrations and grassroots organisations to reinforce fundamental rights locally. It is based on existing good practice and expert input by representatives of human rights cities in the EU, academic experts, international organisations and city networks.
A clip on human rights cities upon launch of ‘Framework of commitments for human rights cities’
28
September
2021
Since September 2020, three National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) had a change in their accreditation status, two new institutions were created and nine have had a change in tasks covered by their mandates. Following up on the September 2020 report “Strong and effective national human rights institutions – challenges, promising practices and opportunities”, this update provides an overview of developments in the accreditation status and mandates of NHRIS in the past 12 months. The update covers the 27 EU Member States as well as three additional states within FRA’s mandate (Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia).
On the occasion of the launch of FRA’s report ‘Protecting civic space in the EU’ this clip sheds light on the challenges civil society faces across the European Union.
On 23 February 2021, FRA’s Director, Michael O’Flaherty, listened to fundamental rights concerns and discussed ways to solve them. The second Fundamental Rights Dialogue invited young people to participate in shaping our societies, placing human rights centre stage.
10
Juni
2021
Das Jahr 2020 brachte beim Schutz der Grundrechte
sowohl Fortschritte als auch Rückschritte. In ihrem
Grundrechte-Bericht 2021 untersucht die FRA wichtige
Entwicklungen auf diesem Gebiet und zeigt sowohl
Erfolge als auch Bereiche auf, in denen es immer
noch Probleme gibt.
10
Juni
2021
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2021 reviews major developments in the field in 2020, 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 year’s focus chapter explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fundamental rights. The remaining chapters cover: the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; equality and non-discrimination; racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; Roma equality and inclusion; asylum, borders and migration; information society, privacy and data protection; rights of the child; access to justice; and the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
On 23 February 2021, FRA’s Director, Michael O’Flaherty, listened to fundamental rights concerns and discussed ways to solve them. The second Fundamental Rights Dialogue invited young people to participate in shaping our societies, placing human rights centre stage.
On 13 November, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) hosted its first Fundamental Rights Dialogue - a virtual event that gave young people an opportunity to voice their fundamental rights concerns and discussed ways to solve them with FRA's Director Michael O'Flaherty.