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Asylum, migration and borders

Migration to the EU: a key challenge for human rights

Hundreds of thousands of people are coming to Europe to seek safety from persecution and war, or simply in search of a better life. In order to guarantee respect for the rights of those arriving at the EU’s shores and ensure they can achieve their full potential to the benefit of themselves and EU society, an effective and sustainable migration policy is vital.
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Sex, sexual orientation and gender

FRA recognised for its outstanding work on combating violence against women

The Spanish Observatory against domestic and gender violence has awarded its prestigious annual prize to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights for its outstanding work to help end violence against women.
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People with disabilities

Political participation indicators infographic - Election authorities

FRA has developed a family of five infographics to help raise awareness of the voting rights of people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities

Parliaments - How can you encourage more people with disabilities to vote?

FRA has developed a family of five infographics to help raise awareness of the voting rights of people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities

Political parties - the votes of people with disabilities count too

FRA has developed a family of five infographics to help raise awareness of the voting rights of people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities

Support organisations - How can you help people with disabilities to vote?

FRA has developed a family of five infographics to help raise awareness of the voting rights of people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities

Voting rights for people with disabilities - What you need to know

FRA has developed a family of five infographics to help raise awareness of the voting rights of people with disabilities.
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Children, youth and older people
Asylum, migration and borders

Help end child trafficking through better guardianship

All across the EU, children without parental care risk falling victims of abuse or trafficking. Today, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) releases a handbook to strengthen national guardianship systems for children in Europe, as part of the EU’s anti-trafficking strategy which recognises the vital role guardians play in protecting children from harm.
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Asylum, migration and borders

European Court of Human Rights and EU Fundamental Rights Agency launch updated guide to European law on asylum, borders and immigration

After the success of the first edition, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) are today launching an update of their guide to European law on asylum, borders and immigration. As well as updating the material contained in the handbook published last year, the guide is being made available in a further two languages.
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Roma

Local Engagement for Roma Inclusion (LERI)

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) introduces its new project "Local Engagement for Roma Inclusion (LERI)".
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Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Hate crime
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
People with disabilities
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Children, youth and older people
Roma

How to strengthen Europe’s fundamental rights protection: FRA suggests ways forward

As EU ministers meet to discuss the future of the EU’s policies on freedom, security and justice, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) outlines practical suggestions in its Annual report about how to ensure people in the EU can have their rights better protected. It also maps out the fundamental rights challenges and achievements that took place over the course of 2013.
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People with disabilities
Children, youth and older people

Violence against children with disabilities

This is an introduction of a research project which will look at hostility, including violence, towards children with disabilities across the EU.
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Asylum, migration and borders

Recent migrant tragedy, another reminder of urgent need for EU-wide action

Many migrants drowned in the recent tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea. The frequency of such tragic events points to the urgent need for Member States and the European Union to work together to safeguard the lives and rights of migrants.
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People with disabilities

Action needed to ensure that all people with disabilities can vote

People with disabilities are active citizens keen to participate in political life given the right opportunities. However, legal, administrative and accessibility barriers can still prevent them from taking part in elections finds the latest research on the rights of people with disabilities from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
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Hate crime

Combating hate crime - Encouraging reporting and improving recording

Hate crime does not just harm individual victims, but entire communities, affecting our societies in all their diversity. Research by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has consistently found that members of ethnic and religious groups, national minorities, migrants, LGBT people or those with disabilities are faced with prejudice on an everyday basis.
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Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Hate crime

Political leaders have central role to play in countering racism and hate crime

Political leaders have central role to play in countering racism and hate crime, say heads of European human rights institutions on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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FRA chairs EU agencies in year of institutional change

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will lead the Europe-wide network of EU Agencies in 2014, the year in which the EU landscape is changing. With the European Parliament elections in May and a new European Commission in the autumn, EU Agencies remain well placed to showcase the EU’s added value.
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Sex, sexual orientation and gender

Launch conference - Violence Against Women

Best of the launch conference 'Violence against women across the EU: Abuse at home, work, in public and online'.
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Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Victims’ rights

Violence against women survey

Results of the biggest ever violence against women survey.
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Sex, sexual orientation and gender

Voices of victims of violence against women

FRA's survey on violence against women reveals for the first time the extent to which women are abused at home, at work, in public and online.