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Highlights

  • Report / Paper / Summary
    22
    octobre
    2025
    This publication discusses how businesses can meet their human rights and environmental responsibilities. It focuses on key elements of mandatory human rights due diligence and presents reflections on principles from international law and EU law. The paper explains why risk-based human rights due diligence is needed and how it should be implemented. It also highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement, access to remedies, and oversight. It aims to inform EU policymakers and stakeholders about ways to effectively promote responsible business conduct and to ensure adequate protection of rightsholders.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    11
    juillet
    2023
    Across the world, human rights defenders protect and uphold human rights in some of the most challenging situations. In some countries they face worrying levels of threats and attacks, intimidation and harassment. This report outlines how human rights defenders can enter and stay in the EU when they need protection. It suggests how EU institutions and Member States could use the flexibility in existing legal provisions and provide shelter for defenders who seek protection.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    19
    décembre
    2023
    All EU funds must be spent in a way that respect fundamental rights. The EU spends billions of euros on creating jobs, economic growth, sustainable development and improving people’s lives. To prevent funds from being spent in ways that directly violate people’s fundamental rights, the EU strengthened the conditions how funds can be spent in 2021. This report looks at how the newly introduced conditions related to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be upheld in practice. It analyses the potential role of national human rights institutions, ombudsperson institutions and equality bodies. These safeguards can advance compliance with fundamental rights.
  • Periodic updates / Series
    18
    octobre
    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.
    Produits
    Talk by Szczepan Orlowski of Animorph at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
    Talk by Flavia Kleiner of Operation Libero to the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
    FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty gave the opening talk at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at the Agency on 3-4 October 2019.
    In the latest edition of his video blog, FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty focuses on the migration situation in the Mediterranean Sea and makes three proposals.
    Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Ten years after the UN’s Disability Convention entered into force, 2018 saw it continue
    to drive advances in disability rights across the EU.
    Fundamental Rights Report 2019: The Charter of Fundamental Rights is the EU’s bill of human rights. These rights and principles have to be respected and promoted by EU institutions and Member States whenever they act within EU law. Approaching the Charter’s 10th anniversary, Member States do not yet make full use of the potential it offers.
    Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Implementing fundamental and human rights helps create a sustainable future.
    Here the EU plays a key role.
    19
    juin
    2019
    In 2018, some 2,299 people are estimated to have died or gone missing at sea while crossing the sea to reach Europe to escape war or persecution or to pursue a better life. This is on average more than six people per day. Before mid-2017, a significant share of migrants in distress at sea have been rescued by civil society vessels deployed with a humanitarian mandate to reduce fatalities and bring rescued migrants to safety. In 2018, however, authorities in some Member States viewed civil society-deployed rescue vessels with hostility. As a reaction, they seized rescue vessels, arrested crew members, and initiated legal procedures against them (more than a dozen altogether). In some cases, rescue vessels were blocked in harbours due to flag issues.
    12
    juin
    2019
    The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has applied across the European Union (EU) since 25 May 2018. One year on, this paper looks at how the new regulation has affected the daily work of civil society organisations (CSOs).
    6
    juin
    2019
    Le présent chapitre étudie l’interaction entre le cadre des droits de l’homme et fondamentaux et les objectifs de développement
    durable (ODD) du programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 (ci-après le «programme 2030») dans le cadre des
    politiques internes des États membres et de l’UE. Il se concentre plus particulièrement sur les ODD relatifs à la réduction des
    inégalités (ODD 10) et à la promotion de la paix, de la justice et d’institutions efficaces (ODD 16).
    6
    juin
    2019
    L’année 2018 a été marquée à la fois par des avancées et des régressions
    en matière de protection des droits fondamentaux. Le Rapport sur les droits
    fondamentaux 2019 de la FRA examine les principales évolutions dans ce
    domaine, en recensant les progrès accomplis et les sujets de préoccupation
    persistants. La présente publication expose les avis de la FRA sur les principales
    évolutions dans les domaines thématiques couverts ainsi qu’un résumé des
    éléments factuels qui étayent ces avis.
    In the latest edition of his video blog, FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty focuses on press freedom and the importance of an independent media for the society.
    22
    mars
    2019
    Les États membres sont explicitement tenus de promouvoir l’application de la Charte. Ces fiches pays soutiennent cet effort en fournissant des exemples de l’utilisation de la Charte et en expliquant comment elle apporte une valeur ajoutée.
    26
    novembre
    2018
    Les organisations de la société civile (OSC) jouent un rôle essentiel dans les démocraties
    et l’importance de leur travail est largement reconnue dans les documents juridiques et
    politiques internationaux. Toutefois, elles sont confrontées à de nombreux obstacles dans
    leur travail quotidien. Sur la base des résultats d’une consultation en ligne réalisée avec la FRP en septembre 2018,
    le présent document complète le rapport de janvier 2018.
    26
    octobre
    2018
    Le Forum des droits 2018 de l’Agence des
    droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne
    a rassemblé plus de 700 champions des
    droits de l’homme à l’heure où les divisions
    sociales s’élargissent et où les politiques
    sont de plus en plus polarisées en Europe.
    23
    octobre
    2018
    En tant que catalogue très moderne des droits de l’homme, la Charte inclut de nombreux
    droits absents des déclarations de droits établies de longue date, et sa lecture
    suscite une impression très favorable. Les personnes qui connaissent les grands
    principes du droit de l’UE sont en général capables de réciter rapidement que la Charte
    est toujours contraignante pour l’UE, et l’est pour les États membres uniquement
    « lorsqu’ils mettent en oeuvre le droit de l’Union ». Mais que signifie cette expression
    souvent citée de l’article 51 de la Charte ?
    1
    octobre
    2018
    This note draws attention to the recent trend of criminalising search and rescue operations (SAR) in the Mediterranean Sea carried out by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other private entities. This includes seizing rescue vessels, as well as arrests for crew members, in some EU Member States. Most of such incidents concerned NGOs operating in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
    1
    octobre
    2018
    With this Opinion, FRA aims to contribute to the European Parliament's own-initiative report on the “Implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the EU institutional framework”, being prepared in the Parliament’s Committee for Constitutional Affairs (AFCO). The request aims at understanding the interaction between the Charter’s implementation at national and EU level, and whether there are “instruments, mechanisms and practices” available at EU level to assist Member States to better implement the Charter.
    26
    septembre
    2018
    Ces 10 clés résument les principaux points soulevés par des responsables de la communication et des spécialistes de divers domaines, lors de réunions d’experts, de séminaires spécialisés et de groupes de réflexion organisés par l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne (FRA) en 2017 et en 2018.
    This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.