Fundamental Rights Report 2024 (FRA)
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024 analyses the year’s developments in fundamental rights. It focuses on the most pressing fundamental rights concerns facing Europe in 2023: the cost-of-living crisis, rights concerns at the EU’s external borders and migration, and threats to democracy.
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The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), in its Fundamental Rights Report 2024, makes inter alia the following recommendations:
Prior to arrival:
- To facilitate visas for human rights defenders
- To avoid discrimination when issuing travel authorisations, in relation to ETIAS screening rules
- To offer more legal pathways for asylum seekers and refugees
- To address deaths and disappearances at borders
- To deploy adequate search-and-rescue capacity
During border checks and border surveillance:
- To maximise fundamental rights benefits and reducing risks, in relation to the Entry/Exit System (EES)
- To mitigate the effects of militarisation and fences at borders
- To stop ill treatment at borders, including towards smuggled people
- To respect the prohibition of refoulement and the right to asylum
- To enhance investigations of rights violations
- To monitor fundamental rights compliance at borders
- To preserve space for civil society
After unauthorised entry:
- To mitigate risks stemming from faster procedures at borders
- To offer dignified reception at borders
- To avoid arbitrary detention
- To address gender-based violence in initial reception facilities
For further information, please read the report attached above.