Rechtspraak, rechten van slachtoffers en justitiële samenwerking

This guide provides practical instructions on how to integrate fundamental rights in foresight exercises. It is for policymakers and practitioners, and explains how to consider fundamental rights throughout the foresight process: from scanning for future changes to building potential scenarios, as well as stress-testing ideas and communicating results. It accompanies the FRA report, ‘Fundamental rights in an uncertain future: Strategic foresight for Europe 2040’, which explores how future changes could affect fundamental rights and sets out ways to protect rights in the face of major transitions.

Europe’s future will be shaped by technology, climate and economic pressures, demographic changes and challenges to democracy and security, and by the choices we make in response. Strategic foresight explores how these changes could unfold. FRA’s strategic foresight work aims to bring fundamental rights into decisions while there is still time to shape them.
This report explores how future changes could affect fundamental rights. It sets out ways to protect rights in the face of major transitions and helps institutions prepare before decisions become urgent. It is accompanied by practical guidance, ‘Embedding fundamental rights in foresight: A guide for practitioners’, designed to support practitioners integrate fundamental rights in foresight exercises.

Violence against women remains widespread in the European Union (EU). This joint report by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presents detailed findings from the EU gender-based violence survey. It offers in-depth analysis of the scale, nature and drivers of violence and exposes the structural gender inequality. Building on the 2024 publication, EU gender-based violence survey - Key results, and following up on FRA’s 2014 report, Violence against women: an EU-wide survey, this report tracks trends over the last decade across the EU. Eurostat, FRA, and EIGE jointly conducted the survey. It is based on over 100,000 interviews covering all 27 EU Member States.

The start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the global community and gave rise to a
series of urgent fundamental rights challenges across Europe. While much attention has focused on the scale of devastation and its wider impact on all Ukrainians, the war has also inflicted profound personal harm. This report sheds light on the violence, sexual harassment and exploitation experienced by women displaced from Ukraine. Drawing on a survey and in-depth interviews with women from Ukraine, the report documents the prevalence, forms and patterns of gender-based violence and sets out practical measures to improve safety, access to justice and support.