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
    • Discrimination & equality between men and women
      • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
      • Social security — equal treatment for men and women
      • EU potential accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
      • Tackling the pay gap between men and women
      • Gender balance in business leadership
      • Self-employment — equal treatment between men and women
      • Gender equality in the labour market
      • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
      • Non-discrimination and equal opportunities in the European Union
      • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
    • Racism and xenophobia
      • Returning illegal immigrants — common standards and procedures
      • Erasmus+ — EU transnational partnerships in education, training, youth and sport
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)
      • Ensuring the consistent implementation of rights
      • Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law
      • Equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
    • Minorities
      • Roma integration in the context of equal treatment
      • Integration of Roma in the area of employment
      • National Roma integration strategies: common European framework
      • Integration of Roma in the area of healthcare
      • Integration of Roma in the area of housing
      • Social and economic integration of Roma
      • Integration of Roma in the area of education
    • Children's rights
      • EU strategy on the rights of the child
      • The European Union and Children's Rights
    • Rights of the elderly
      • The EU's Social Investment package
      • Using IT to improve the quality of life of the elderly
    • Integration of persons with disabilities
      • The Marrakesh Treaty
      • Directive implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
      • Regulation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
      • European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)
      • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
  • Solidarity
  • 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