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Fundamental rights: challenges and achievements in 2010
Steps forward in 2010 included, among many, the reinforcement of a fundamental rights check of EU legislative proposals and the adoption of the regulation on the Citizen's initiative - an important new EU participatory democracy tool. Moves by several Member States to strengthen or create National Human Rights Institutions or the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights or Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by the EU complemented this picture.
Still, there is no room for complacency. The EU continues to face various issues of concern in the fundamental rights field, such as persisiting and extreme poverty as well as social exclusion among Roma communities and deteriorating conditions of asylum seekers in certain Member States. In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights delivered over 600 judgments for violations of human rights against almost all 27 EU Member States.
This report examines progress on EU and Member States rights obligations under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, covering the following topics: situation of Roma in the EU; asylum immigration and integration; border control and visa policy; information society and data protection; the rights of the child and protection of children; equality and non-discrimination; racism and ethnic discrimination; participation of EU citizens in the Unions democratic functioning; access to efficient and independent justice; and victims' protection.
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- Title and foreword (pdf 641KB)
- Table of contents (pdf 352KB)
- Introduction (pdf 539KB)
- Chapter 1: Asylum, immigration and integration (pdf 1,035KB)
- Chapter 2: Border control and visa policy (pdf 762KB)
- Chapter 5: Equality and non-discrimination (pdf 1,125KB)
- Chapter 6: Racism and ethnic discrimination (pdf 960KB)
- Chapter 9: Protection of victims (pdf 713KB)
- Chapter 10: International obligations (pdf 1,378KB)