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Highlights

  • Report / Paper / Summary
    12
    décembre
    2025
    As the EU prepares to join the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), this report outlines the main changes that accession would bring, offering an overview of the legal and operational implications. Presented in a Q&A format, it provides answers to 19 key questions for legal professionals and a broader audience. It describes the steps needed to conclude accession, the expected benefits for protecting rights, and some of the challenges that may come up. This legal analysis contributes to the current discussions on EU accession.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    8
    décembre
    2025
    This report examines how human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) are built into lawmaking across the EU and its Member States. It highlights that, although progress has been made, the use of HRIAs remains uneven and often superficial. In many EU countries, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is frequently overlooked. The report identifies insufficient consultation with external experts, limited stakeholder participation and a lack of evaluation once laws are in force. To address these gaps, it offers practical recommendations for more systematic, inclusive and evidence-based HRIAs that strengthen human rights protection and ensure better, more accountable legislation throughout the EU.
  • 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.
    Produits
    FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty speaks about the role of civil society and the FRA’s mechanism for cooperation with civil society, the Fundamental Rights Platform. “A healthy civil society is vital for the protection and promotion of fundamental rights. (…) Without civil society, we are not able to achieve our goals, we are not able to deliver our results. (…) We can cooperate to ensure that our Europe of values remains and gets ever stronger.”
    This video message by Ulrike Lunacek, Vice-President of the European Parliament, was recorded on the occasion of FRA's 10th anniversary.
    In 2017 and beyond, the Fundamental Rights Agency will focus on today’s most urgent human rights quandaries, from migration and asylum, through xenophobia and discrimination, to the very contemporary challenges of privacy, surveillance and hate speech in the digital age.
    20
    mai
    2016
    This opinion addresses the designation and operation of a framework established under Article 33 (2) of the CRPD at EU level (EU Framework). It aims to clarify the requirements of an EU Framework in light of the monitoring practice and jurisprudence of the CRPD Committee and – with regard to the concept of independence –the Committee interpreting the Paris Principles on the establishment of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs).
    19
    Février
    2016
    This leaflet explains how national parliaments, governments and courts can use the Charter and shows how the Charter was used at the national level in 2015.
    11
    mai
    2015
    A new Focus paper by the EU Agency of Fundamental Rights (FRA) outlines how Member States across the EU have reformed their laws and policies to meet their obligations under the CRPD. By bringing together examples of such reforms, it also highlights how the adoption of international commitments can drive wide-ranging processes of change at the national level.
    11
    Février
    2015
    The events that took place in France and Belgium in January 2015 had tremendous impact across the European Union (EU) and beyond. In the immediate aftermath of the events in Paris, FRA collected responses across Europe, focusing on Jewish and Muslim community organisations, political leaders, civil society and the media. The current paper provides an overview of this material and should be regarded as a snapshot of a rapidly changing situation.
    5
    mars
    2014
    Cette fiche présente quelques exemples des résultats de l’enquête, assortis de considérations générales sur de possibles voies à suivre comme éléments de réponse à la violence à l’égard des femmes.
    26
    janvier
    2010
    L’Holocauste est à juste titre devenu une partie intégrante de la mémoire collective culturelle de l’Europe et du monde. Ce rapport présente les résultats de la première enquête à l’échelle de l’UE consacrée au rôle des sites et des expositions liés à l’Holocauste dans l’éducation des jeunes Européens relative à l’Holocauste et aux droits de l’homme.
    15
    octobre
    2012
    National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) protect and promote human rights at the national level, tackling systemic problems and raising fundamental rights awareness. To equip NHRIs to perform their role well, they should have, among other qualities, independence, powers and a broad mandate, in accordance with the so-called ‘Paris Principles’ which were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 and set forth the primary minimum standards for an effective NHRI.
    10
    octobre
    2012
    Copenhagen Seminar Report
    Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU and EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (15–16 March 2012)
    26
    janvier
    2010
    En 2009, l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne (FRA) a réalisé la toute première recherche à l’échelle européenne sur le rôle des mémoriaux dans l’enseignement relatif à l’Holocauste et à l’éducation aux droits de l’homme dans l’Union européenne (UE). Le résumé du rapport, Découvrir le passé pour l’avenir – Le rôle des sites historiques et des musées dans l’enseignement relatif à l’Holocauste et à l’éducation aux droits de l’homme au sein de l’UE, fournit une sélection d’observations, des éléments de discussion ainsi que des recommandations.
    Les droits fondamentaux sont les droits et les libertés élémentaires dont doivent jouir tous les citoyens de l’UE. Ils sont identiques, peu importe qui vous êtes, ce en quoi vous croyez et le mode de vie que vous adoptez.
    La plate-forme des droits fondamentaux est le canal utilisé par la FRA pour coopérer et échanger des informations avec les organisations de la société civile qui s'occupent des droits fondamentaux dans l'UE.
    L'agence coopère avec les Nations Unies (ONU), l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE), le Conseil de l'Europe et d'autres organisations internationales. Cette coopération s'inscrit dans le cadre des dispositions du règlement fondateur de la FRA et comprend des consultations d'experts, des conférences et des séminaires, ainsi que des échanges de données et d'informations. Elle crée des synergies et permet d'optimiser les ressources afin d'éviter les doubles emplois. Elle contribue aussi à un meilleur alignement des recommandations et avis des différentes organisations en faisant en sorte que leurs travaux se complètent mutuellement.
    7
    mai
    2010
    Le présent rapport porte sur la sensibilisation des personnes interrogées à leurs droits en matière de non-discrimination, notamment sur leur connaissance des organismes de promotion de l’égalité et organisations associées dans les États membres.
    7
    mai
    2010
    Human rights are first and foremost to be addressed at the national level. National human rights institutions (NHRIs) play an important role in the human rights architecture at the national level. This report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), is intended to identify gaps and concerns in the fundamental rights architecture in the European Union.