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EFRIS the European Union Fundamental Rights Information System The human rights gateway Many databases One single gateway for all Comparisons EU-focused 2 Monitoring mechanisms Not foreseen for EFRIS in short or medium

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EFRIS – the European Union Fundamental Rights Information System

The human rights gateway

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Many databases

  • One single gateway

for all

  • Comparisons
  • EU-focused
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10 United Nations (56) Council of Europe (8+8)

Treaty Bodies (10) Special Procedures (44 thematic) Universal Periodic Review ILO-CEACR (CoE Application of

  • Conv. And Rec.)

National minorities – Advisory Cttee Lanzarote Cttee – child sex.

  • expl. and abuse

European Cttee

  • f Social Rights

CEPEJ – E. Cssn Efficiency of Justice Cttee for the Prevention of Torture GRECO – Group of States Corruption GRETA – GoE Trafficking in Human Beings GREVIO – GoE

  • n VaW and DV

European Union (8)

CJEU – Court of Justice of the EU European Ombudsman EU Fundamental Rights Agency Commissioner for Human Rights European Data Protection Supervisor European Commission –

  • infringem. RoL

Venice Commission – democracy-law ECRI – E. Cssn Racism and Intolerance

Monitoring mechanisms

EU’s CRPD monitoring mechanism

Political bodies Additional data sources

UN Stats Treaty office PACE – Parliamentary Assembly Treaty office SPACE – Annual Penal Statistics European Parliament EU Fundamental Rights Agency Eurostat – EU’s statistical office Human Rights Council

Not foreseen for EFRIS in short or medium term

EU Justice Scoreboard (E. Semester) Cttee of Ministers PETI – European Parliament European Court

  • f Human

Rights C of Local and Regional –

  • Monitor. Cttee

Data protection – Consult. Cttee (T-PD) Cybercrime –

  • Convent. Cttee

(T-CY)

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  • Reg. and min.

languages – Cttee of Exp.

A wide range of human rights monitoring mechanisms and treaties; not the least from the United Nations and the Council of Europe

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Government Parliamentary Gov’t Expert / Tripartite Judicial Quasi-judicial / Expert

Nat’l minorities – Advisory Cttee (FCNM) Lanzarote Cttee – child sex.

  • expl. and abuse

European Cttee

  • f Social Rights

CEPEJ – E. Cssn Efficiency of Justice Cttee for the Prevention of Torture GRECO – Group of States Corruption GRETA – GoE Trafficking in Human Beings GREVIO – GoE

  • n VaW and DV

Commissioner for Human Rights Venice Commission – democracy-law ECRI – E. Cssn Racism and Intolerance European Court

  • f Human

Rights C of Local and Regional –

  • Monitor. Cttee

Data protection – Consult. Cttee (T-PD) Cybercrime –

  • Convent. Cttee

(T-CY) CJEU – Court of Justice of the EU European Ombudsman EU Fundamental Rights Agency European Data Protection Supervisor European Commission –

  • infringem. RoL

EU’s CRPD monitoring mechanism EU Justice Scoreboard (E. Semester) PETI – European Parliament Committee of Ministers

Individual complaints procedure Country visits Occasional visits General comments Some form of general guidance Reporting Some form of input other than reporting

  • Reg. and min.

languages – Cttee of Exp.

Human rights monitoring mechanisms that are quite different but that can be grouped as judicial, quasi- judicial, expert etc

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10 United Nations (55/56) Council of Europe (3+3+2 of 16)

Treaty Bodies (10) Special Procedures (44 thematic) Universal Periodic Review ILO-CEACR (CoE Application of

  • Conv. And Rec.)

European Cttee

  • f Social Rights

Cttee for the Prevention of Torture GRECO – Group of States Corruption

European Union (3/8)

CJEU – Court of Justice of the EU EU Fundamental Rights Agency European Commission –

  • infringem. RoL

ECRI – E. Cssn Racism and Intolerance

Monitoring mechanisms

Political bodies Additional data sources

Treaty office Treaty office

Added to EFRIS in short term

Cttee of Ministers – Execution Dep’t European Court

  • f Human

Rights

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GRETA – GoE Trafficking in Human Beings GREVIO – GoE

  • n VaW and DV

Added to EFRIS in medium term

EFRIS includes most UN mechanisms and some Council of Europe mechanisms from the outset, with additional ones being added

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EFRIS CoE OHCHR ILO CJEU

(eurlex)

FRA Annual essential data

Treaties Monitoring Treaties Monitoring Treaties Monitoring Web-services File transfers Manual European Court

  • f Human

Rights European Committee of Social Rights Cttee for the Prevention of Torture ECRI – E. Cssn Racism and Intolerance … Charterpedia Surveys

OSCE? NHRIs? NPMs?

  • Not a database
  • Doesn’t interpret or

‘undermine’

2020? 2020 ? 2020? ?

EFRIS is an interface to a number of existing databases; it uses so called web- services, automatic data transfers

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Compliance 202? 2020 2021 2019 Commit- ments

United Nations Council of Europe

Treaty Bodies (10) Special Procedures (44 thematic) Universal Periodic Review ILO-CEACR (CoE Application of

  • Conv. And Rec.)

European Cttee

  • f Social Rights

Cttee for the Prevention of Torture GRECO – Group of States Corruption ECRI – E. Cssn Racism and Intolerance Treaty office Treaty office Cttee of Ministers – Execution Dep’t European Court

  • f Human

Rights GREVIO – GoE

  • n VaW and DV

GRETA – GoE Trafficking in Human Beings

European Union

CJEU

OSCE

EFRIS is developed through iterations, with improvements as well as thematic expansions planned for the coming years

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What remains to be done?

  • A lot!
  • Adjustments / corrections / clarifications
  • Refinements

– Detailed selection of relevant treaties and mechanisms (‘full-text search’)

  • Including discrimination grounds, not only at ‘rights-level’

– Guidance to specific location in documents – Relevance of a document depending on frequency of words, closeness of concepts in texts, etc – weighting (machine learning) – Thematic ‘buttons’ (rule of law?)

  • User-testing and adjustments
  • Dissemination and awareness – targeted
  • Expansion (CJEU, ILO, NHRIs?, etc)
  • …

A lot remains to be done, but it is a good start

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Commitments is about states’

  • bligations under

international human rights law; Compliance is about monitoring mechanisms

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Compliance shows things like accepted treaties and reservations –

  • verviews or details
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… or even more comparatively

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It is possible to select / deselect mechanisms

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… and countries

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And rights can be selected / deselected

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Searching generally

  • r with selected

delimitations provide a tab for each mechanism

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Selecting a tab provides an

  • verview of, in the

case of treaty bodies, the most recent concluding

  • bservations
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Or in more detail the issues a report covers

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Jurisprudence (communications / individual complaints) to the treaty bodies can be viewed

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By selecting an item in the graph the user ends up with an

  • verview of, in this

case, the relevant cases, and the hyperlinks are directly to the full text source

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UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) can be viewed in terms of percentage of accepted recommendations

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It is also possible to see what issues the recommendations in the UPR covers

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Selecting UN Special Procedures reveal latest report from country visit

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All graphs are also available as tables

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… or where relevant, as maps

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Why FRA develops EFRIS?

  • Improving human rights
  • Filling a gap – positive response to FRA proposal

– European Parliament resolutions – European Commission Opinion on FRA’s Work Programme – Council of the EU’s secretariat / Presidencies interest – CSOs, NHRIs, etc

  • Reinforcing EU’s joining up human rights
  • Reducing complexity, making more use of existing work
  • …

Why EFRIS

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EU institutions and EFRIS

  • European Parliament, 2016 Resolution on an EU mechanism on democracy, the

rule of law and fundamental rights

– “The European DRF Report shall be drawn up using a variety of sources and the existing tools for assessment, reporting and monitoring of Member States’ activities, including […] the FRA, in particular the EFRIS instrument”

  • Council of the EU – Romanian Presidency, 2019

– Invitation to present EFRIS in the Working Party on Fundamental Rights, …

  • European Commission, 2019, Communication on strengthening the rule of law

– “[FRA] whose remit covers rule of law-relevant rights such as that to effective judicial remedy, has developed the EU Fundamental Rights Information System (EFRIS) to facilitate access to relevant existing information and reports concerning the situation in the Member

  • States. This variety of sources of information could be better used, brought together and

complemented more effectively than it is the case today.”

(emphasis added)

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fra.europa.eu

www.fra.europa.eu/en/databases/efris Available in late 2019 EFRIS@fra.europa.eu