In Europe, thousands of exploited workers are forced to work endless hours with no or little pay and without adequate safety equipment. Many of those exploited workers are migrants. Their situation has become even worse during the Coronavirus pandemic, as their working conditions do not allow physical distancing or regular handwashing. The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) calls on EU institutions and EU Member States to take all the necessary steps to stop the exploitation of migrant workers, ensure safe working conditions and fair pay.
FRA will hold a meeting to prepare for the second part of its Procedural safeguards for children who are suspects or accused in criminal proceedings project.
Rund 2,5 Millionen Kinder nehmen jedes Jahr an Gerichtsverfahren in der gesamten Europäischen
Union (EU) teil; dabei geht es um die Scheidung ihrer Eltern, oder aber sie sind Opfer oder
Zeugen von Straftaten geworden. Obwohl eine wirksame Beteiligung von Kindern an solchen
Verfahren entscheidend ist, um die Arbeitsweise der Justiz zu verbessern, ist der Umgang mit
Kindern in den Justizsystemen nach wie vor besorgniserregend.
Around 2.5 million children participate in judicial proceedings across the European Union (EU)
every year, affected by parental divorce or as victims of, or witnesses to, crime. Although their
effective participation in such proceedings is vital for improving the operation of justice, the
treatment of children in justice systems remains a concern.
Chaque année, environ 2,5 millions d’enfants participent à des procédures judiciaires dans
l’Union européenne, parce que leurs parents divorcent ou parce qu’ils ont été victimes ou
témoins d’un crime. Bien que leur participation effective à ces procédures soit essentielle
pour améliorer le fonctionnement de la justice, le traitement des enfants dans les systèmes
judiciaires reste préoccupant.
Often living in substandard and overcrowded housing conditions, Roma
and Travellers face an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. They are
also disproportionately affected by measures taken to contain the virus.
This FRA Bulletin takes a closer look at this reality in 15 EU Member States,
focusing on education; employment; poverty; healthcare; housing; and
anti-Gypsyism. It also outlines civil society efforts to tackle the diverse
challenges triggered by the Coronavirus pandemic.
FRA's first Being Black in the EU report exposed widespread and entrenched racism against people of African descent in Europe. Now updated with new data, this report revisits the situation revealing persistent racial discrimination, harassment and violence. Overall, experiences of racial discrimination increased in the EU countries since 2016, reaching as high as 77%. The lack of progress is alarming despite binding anti-discrimination law in the EU since 2000 and significant EU policy developments since then.
The EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) work together to help states improve their ability to record and collect hate crime data through national workshops.
Review pending - FRA’s 2019 survey on Roma and Travellers in Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom interviewed almost 4 700 Roma and Travellers, collecting information on more than 8 200 individuals living in their households.
FRA’s second EU Minorities and Discrimination survey (EU-MIDIS II) collected information from over 25,000 respondents with different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds across all 28 EU Member States. The main findings from the survey, published in 2017, pointed to a number of differences in the way women and men with immigrant backgrounds across the European Union (EU) experience how their rights are respected. This report summarises some of the most relevant survey findings in this regard, which show the need for targeted, gender-sensitive measures that promote the integration of – specifically – women who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.
The establishment of a minimum age for sexual consent, the age at which a child can decide to have sex with someone, aims to protect children from abuse or consequences of early sexual activity, such as early pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases.
The project will provide evidence-based advice to EU institutions and Member States on procedural safeguards for children who are suspected or accused of crime. FRA will collect information through a combination of desk research and interviews with lawyers, police, judges, prosecutors, other juvenile justice professionals, as well as with children.
FRA will hold an online inception meeting to mark the start of its research into procedural safeguards for children suspected and accused of crime. The meeting on will gather partners from FRA’s research network from nine EU Member States – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Malta, Poland and Portugal – covered by the research.
FRA held an online inception meeting of a new project looking into the fundamental rights situation of third-country nationals who are long-term residents in the EU. The meeting on will gather partners from FRA’s research network from nine EU Member States – Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden – covered by the research.
The project will provide evidence-based advice on the rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, to be present at trial and not to self-incriminate.
Die Unschuldsvermutung ist ein zentrales Recht in der Strafgerichtsbarkeit. Doch Vorurteile, Voreingenommenheit und Praktiken wie etwa die Vorführung von Angeklagten in Handschellen untergraben dieses Recht in vielen europäischen Ländern, wie die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) in ihrem neuesten Bericht feststellt. Die FRA appelliert an die EU-Länder, die Rechte aller Angeklagten ungeachtet ihres Hintergrunds zu respektieren.