Human rights
EU policies in favour of human rights defenders
Human rights defenders (HRDs) are persons who act alone or with others to promote or protect human rights by peaceful...
Recommendation on the mandate of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights
In July 2012, the European External Action Service (EEAS) appointed a new Special Representative for Human Rights (EUSR for...
EU Annual Reports on Human Rights in the World (2009, 2010, 2011)
Refugee resettlement, human rights strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring, and a coherent approach to human rights in...
The EU's human rights strategy
When Catherine Ashton took office as the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, one of her first...
Transfer of Financial Messaging Data to the US (SWIFT)
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001, the US began to submit informal requests for and...
EU strategy on Roma inclusion
Roma people suffer from multiple forms of discrimination in the EU.
In some Member States, like France and Greece,...
EU policy to fight violence against women
Women are the main victims of gender-based violence.
Studies show that one-fifth to one-quarter of all women in...
European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the EU's External Borders (FRONTEX)
Frontex, the European agency coordinating the protection of the EU's external borders, was established in 2004.
Since...
Combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
Like any other internet content, child pornography is easily moved from server to server.
EU legislation could limit...
The European Protection Order
The European Protection Order (EPO) aims to extend court orders for victim protection from national level to European level,...
Agreement between the EU and the United States on the processing and transfer of passenger name records
Over the past decade the USA has profiled all passengers entering their country, checking whether they might potentially be...
European complicity in the CIA rendition and secret detention programme
Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, several hundred "terrorism suspects" were secretly abducted,...
Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (2010-2011)
Every year, Parliament sums up the human rights situation in the EU by listing violations in various domains, ranging from...
Package for the protection of crime victims
The aim of the Victims Package is to reinforce existing national and EU measures on victims' rights.
Following an...
