Highlights

  • Handbook / Guide / Manual
    1
    August
    2024
    Migrant workers are particularly at risk of labour exploitation. Workplace inspectors play a role in protecting non-EU workers' rights. This report guides inspectors to identify abuse and protect migrant workers. In autumn 2024, FRA will publish a manual with extensive resources to support workplace inspectors.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    30
    July
    2024
    Fundamental rights violations on the EU’s land and sea borders often go unreported. Investigations into these violations need to be more effective. This report gathers examples of alleged rights violations of migrants and refugees between 2020 and 2023. It sets out 10 steps to promote prompt and effective national investigations into incidents of ill-treatment at borders.
  • Periodic updates / Series
    1
    July
    2024
    The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights regularly collects data on the operations of NGO vessels involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean. This includes any legal proceedings against them, as well as any difficulties in disembarking migrants in safe ports. This paper provides an overview of criminal investigations and other legal proceedings initiated by European Union (EU) Member States against civil society organisations deploying search and rescue vessels and aircraft in the Mediterranean and/or against individual crew members. The latest update covers the period from 2018 up until the end of May 2024.
  • Handbook / Guide / Manual
    17
    December
    2020
    La Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo (CEDU) e il diritto dell’Unione europea (UE)
    forniscono un quadro di riferimento sempre più importante per la protezione dei diritti degli
    stranieri. La legislazione dell’UE in materia di asilo, frontiere e immigrazione è in rapido sviluppo.
    Esiste un cospicuo corpus di giurisprudenza formato dalla Corte europea dei diritti
    dell’uomo (Corte EDU) riguardante, in particolare, gli articoli 3, 5, 8 e 13 CEDU. La Corte di
    giustizia dell’Unione europea (CGUE) è chiamata con sempre maggiore frequenza a pronunciarsi
    sull’interpretazione delle disposizioni legislative dell’UE in quest’ambito. La presente
    terza edizione del manuale, aggiornata a luglio 2020, presenta in modo accessibile la legislazione
    dell’UE e la giurisprudenza delle due corti europee, è rivolto a professionisti legali,
    giudici, pubblici ministeri, funzionari dell’immigrazione e organizzazioni non governative
    negli Stati membri dell’Unione europea e del Consiglio d’Europa.
Prodotti
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.
27
June
2019
The EU Return Directive (2008/115/EC) in Article 8 (6) introduced an important fundamental rights safeguard for third-country nationals ordered to leave the EU because they do not or no longer fulfil the conditions for entry and/or stay. According to the directive, Member States must provide for an effective forced-return monitoring system.
25
June
2019
This report is the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s fourth on the topic of severe labour exploitation. Based on interviews with 237 exploited workers, it paints a bleak picture of severe exploitation and abuse. The workers include both people who came to the EU, and EU nationals who moved to another EU country. They were active in diverse sectors, and their legal status also varied.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Not all children benefit equally from efforts to guarantee child rights.
Some groups face particular difficulties.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Although migrant arrivals to the EU continue to drop, it remains a divisive issue politically and
across society. Nearly 4 in 10 Europeans think immigration is more of a problem than a solution.
And nearly a half overestimate the number of irregular migrants in their country.
19
June
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.
13
June
2019
New language versions: BG, DE, EL, FR, RO
02 July 2020
Il manuale Minori privati delle cure genitoriali trovati in uno Stato membro dell’UE diverso dal proprio
mira a rafforzare la risposta di tutti i soggetti coinvolti nella protezione dei minori. La protezione di
questi ragazzi e queste ragazze è di primaria importanza ed è un obbligo per gli Stati membri dell’UE
sancito dal quadro giuridico internazionale e dell’UE. Il manuale dedica un’attenzione particolare
ai minori vittime della tratta e ai minori a rischio, dando applicazione a un’azione definita nella
comunicazione della Commissione europea sull’intensificazione dell’azione dell’UE di lotta alla tratta
degli esseri umani del 2017, e tiene conto dei modelli individuati, anche rispetto alla specificità di
genere che caratterizza il reato.
6
June
2019
How much progress can we expect in a decade? Various rights-related instruments had been in place for 10 years in 2018, prompting both sobering and encouraging reflection on this question.
6
June
2019
Il 2018 è stato caratterizzato sia da progressi che da battute d’arresto in termini di tutela dei diritti fondamentali. La Relazione sui diritti fondamentali 2019 della FRA fa il punto della situazione sui principali sviluppi in materia, individuando i risultati ottenuti e i settori che destano ancora preoccupazione.
Periodic updates / Series
16
May
2019
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has been regularly collecting data on migration since
September 2015. This report focuses on the fundamental rights situation of people arriving in
Member States and EU candidate countries particularly affected by migration movements.
It addresses fundamental rights concerns between 1 January and 31 March 2019.
27
March
2019
This report looks into the fundamental rights situation of asylum applicants and beneficiaries of international protection in the EU throughout 2018. It pulls together the main issues identified in FRA’s regular updates on fundamental rights related to asylum, migration and borders in selected EU Member States, which the agency has been publishing since September 2015.
11
March
2019
In November 2016, FRA formulated 21 individual opinions to address the fundamental rights shortcomings identified in the implementation of the hotspot approach in Greece and Italy. Despite genuine efforts to improve the situation since November 2016, many of the suggestions contained in the 21 opinions FRA formulated at the time remain valid.
Periodic updates / Series
18
February
2019
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has been regularly collecting data on migration since
September 2015. This report focuses on the fundamental rights situation of people arriving in
Member States and EU candidate countries particularly affected by large migration movements.
17
January
2019
This Opinion by FRA aims to inform the European Parliament’s position on the legislative proposal for a recast Directive on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third country nationals (Return Directive), presented by the European Commission on 12 September 2018.
6
December
2018
This Opinion by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aims to inform
the European Parliament’s position on the legislative proposal on the European Border and
Coast Guard (EBCG) presented by the European Commission on 12 September 2018.
5
December
2018
Last versions available are EL and NL
11 March 2021
La presente guida spiega che cos’è la profilazione, illustra i quadri giuridici che la disciplinano ed espone i motivi per cui l’applicazione della profilazione entro i limiti stabiliti dalla legge è necessaria per rispettare i diritti fondamentali ed essenziale per un’efficace attività di polizia e gestione delle frontiere. La guida fornisce inoltre indicazioni pratiche su come evitare la profilazione illecita nelle operazioni di polizia e di gestione delle frontiere.
Black people in the EU face unacceptable difficulties in getting a decent job because of their skin colour. Racist harassment also remains all too common.