With 80 % of Roma surveyed living below their country's at-risk-of-poverty threshold, every third Roma living in housing without tap water, every third Roma child going to bed hungry at least once a month, and Roma children lagging behind their non-Roma peers in education, this report...

In November 2017, the European Commission requested the support of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in evaluating the impact on fundamental rights of the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) Regulation. Further to this request, FRA reviewed the implementation of...

The year 2017 brought both progress and setbacks in terms of rights protection. The European Pillar of Social Rights marked an important move towards a more 'social Europe'. But, as experiences with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights underscore, agreement on a text is merely a first step. Even...

Guardians are one of the most important features of a protection system for children who are deprived of their family environment and cannot have their interests represented by their parents. They are key to safeguard the child's best interests and general well-being, and to complement the...

Guardians are one of the most important features of a protection system for children who are deprived of their family environment and cannot have their interests represented by their parents. They are key to safeguard the child's best interests and general well-being, and to complement the...

The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and signifi cant challenges as...

The European Union has been equipped with its own bill of rights - the Charter of Fundamental Rights - since 2000. It became legally binding in 2009, and has the same legal value as the EU treaties. Those familiar with the main principles of EU law can usually quickly recite that the Charter is...

Almost 20 years after adoption of EU laws forbidding discrimination, people of African descent in the EU face widespread and entrenched prejudice and exclusion. Racial discrimination and harassment are commonplace. Experiences with racist violence vary greatly across countries, but reach as high...