Finding the right balance between promoting children's right to participate in procedures that affect their lives and protecting them from harm remains a challenge in the field of justice. Member States address this in various ways, including by setting minimum age requirements for certain...

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...

Civil society organisations in the European Union (EU) play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, and so contribute to the functioning of democracies. They give voice to people on issues that matter to them, assist rights holders, monitor governments' and parliaments' activities,...

Religious scholars, clerics, representatives of religious communities and human rights experts explored the shared space of religion and human rights at a highlevel expert meeting organised by the European Union's independent centre for fundamental rights excellence, the EU Agency for...

Civil society organisations in the European Union play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, but it has become harder for them to do so - due to both legal and practical restrictions. While challenges exist in all EU Member States, their exact nature and extent vary. Data and research...

Civil society organisations in the European Union play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, but it has become harder for them to do so - due to both legal and practical restrictions. While challenges exist in all EU Member States, their exact nature and extent vary. Data and research...

Civil society organisations in the European Union play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, but it has become harder for them to do so - due to both legal and practical restrictions. While challenges exist in all EU Member States, their exact nature and extent vary. Data and research...

Diverse efforts at both EU and national levels sought to bolster fundamental rights protection in 2016, while some measures threatened to undermine such protection. For refugees and migrants, legal avenues to reach Europe remained elusive, with authorities focusing on return policies,...

Diverse efforts at both EU and national levels sought to bolster fundamental rights protection in 2016, while some measures threatened to undermine such protection. For refugees and migrants, legal avenues to reach Europe remained elusive, with authorities focusing on return policies,...

Persons falling victim to abuse by business could have a range of fundamental rights affected. Businesses of all types, large and small, domestic and international, public and private, and across all sectors can affect the respect of human rights. The range of potential rights abuses is wide,...