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Each year, millions of people across the EU fall victims of crime but effective support and protection of their rights are often lacking. A new paper from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) examines the shortcomings of existing rights protection and offers possible ways forward.

A third of women in the EU have experienced violence at home, at work or in public. Young women report having experienced higher levels of sexual harassment at work and other forms of violence than older women. Yet violence against women often remains invisible as only every fourth woman reports incidents to the authorities (the police, or social, health or support services). These are some of the findings of the EU survey on gender-based violence conducted from 2020 to 2024 by Eurostat (the statistical office of the EU), the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

The Fundamental Rights Guidance Board of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) was established two years ago on 14 November 2022. FRA is a member of the Guidance Board.

Bulgarian civil society organisations invited FRA to contribute to a conference on ‘Business and Civil Society: Partners for a Better Civic Space’. The conference was held in Sofia on 21 November.

FRA addressed a conference organised by Hungarian civil society organisations about an EU civil society strategy. The conference brought together participants from Hungary, from other EU Member States, and from European level civil society umbrella organisations.

FRA joined the autumn plenary meeting of the OECD’s Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) on 12 and 13 December in Paris.

The European Guardianship Network met in Dublin from 13 to 14 November. They discussed the challenges and implementation of the EU’s Asylum and Migration Pact in the area of guardianship for unaccompanied children.

FRA joined an international conference on public administration in Paris on 14 November. The conference discussed governance of AI as well as the use of AI by public administrations.

FRA contributed to an EU law training event for Hungarian administrative law judges. The FRA focus was on artificial intelligence (AI) and fundamental rights implications.

FRA hosted the Annual General Meeting of its Fundamental Rights Platform from 12 to 13 November. FRA Director Sirpa Rautio announced the Agency will pilot a Youth Advisory Panel and outlined the Agency’s strategic plans for the next years.