Fundamental rights set out minimum standards to ensure that a person is treated with dignity. Whether this is the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of your age, disability or ethnic background, the right to the protection of your personal data, or the right to get access to justice, these rights should all be promoted and protected.
The EU has set up the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) ‘to ensure that the fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected.’ It has also developed an Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, and each year it reports on progress in achieving the goals of the Action Plan.
Freedoms Equality
The EU has a special representative for Human Rights whose job is to make EU policy on human rights more effective in non-EU countries.
The EU policy includes: ●● Working to promote the rights of women, children, minorities and displaced persons ●● Opposing the death penalty, torture, human trafficking and discrimination ●● Defending civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
