The European Union: furthering human rights and democracy across the globe

Abstract

This brochure presents an overview of the EU human rights and democratisation policy, including human rights promotion in the EU’s legal system; tools and mechanisms under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (including EU human rights guidelines); the EIDHR funding (European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights) as well as key thematic issues, such as fight against death penalty, torture and impunity; rights of the child and women; racism, xenophobia and protection of minorities as well as election assistance and observation