Human rights in the EU: fundamental rights

• Institutions, agencies & bodies
  • EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
  • European Institute for Gender Equality
  • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
• The Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • Putting the Charter of Fundamental Rights into practice
  • Promoting and safeguarding the EUs values
  • Human rights and democracy - the EU's new action plan
  • Ensuring the consistent implementation of rights
  • Dignity
    • EU ban on trade in instruments of torture
    • EU guidelines on death penalty
    • Protocol against the trafficking of people
    • EU guidelines on torture and other cruel treatment
    • Report on impact of EU funding to stop torture and the death penalty
    • ILO Forced Labour Protocol: ratification by EU countries
  • Freedoms
    • Non-EU workers - easier residence and work formalities
    • Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
    • Protection of personal data (from 2018)
    • Protecting personal data when being used by police and criminal justice authorities (from 2018)
    • Right to be forgotten on the Internet
    • Media freedom and pluralism in the digital environment
    • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
    • Data protection in the electronic communications sector
    • Procedural safeguards for vulnerable persons in criminal proceedings
  • Equality
  • Solidarity
    • Collective redundancies: staff information and consultation
    • EU general rules on employee information and consultation
    • Working abroad - ensuring EU employees’ rights are respected
    • Informing and consulting employees — European Works Councils
    • Strengthening EU consumer rights
    • Reintegrating the long-term unemployed into the labour market
    • Protection of young people at work
    • European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020)
    • EURES: Job search services across the EU
  • Citizens' rights
    • The European Citizens’ Initiative
    • Accelerating the digital transformation of governments in the EU — 2016-2020 action plan
    • The right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections
    • EU freedom of movement and residence
    • Access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents
    • EU consular protection: better protection for EU citizens abroad
    • Europe for Citizens: Bringing the EU closer to citizens
    • The European Ombudsman
  • Justice
    • Legal aid in criminal proceedings
    • Justice Programme (2014-2020)
    • Objective data for more effective justice: EU justice scoreboard
    • Criminal proceedings — Presumption of innocence and the right to be present at the trial
    • Fair trial: suspects’ right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings
    • Protecting personal data when being used by police and criminal justice authorities (from 2018)
    • Right to access a lawyer in criminal and European warrant arrest proceedings
    • Compensation for victims of crime in other EU countries
    • Legal aid in civil and commercial matters
    • Better protection for victims in criminal proceedings
    • Promoting videoconferencing between EU countries in the area of justice
    • EU justice policy: the way forward
    • Trust in Europe’s transparent and democratic legal systems