Fundamental Rights Forum High Patron, Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria Highlighting the Agency’s important role in reminding the EU and its Member States to uphold their commitment to fundamental rights, the Austrian President, Alexander Van der Bellen, is the High Patron of FRA’s Fundamental Rights Forum. FRA was established in 2007 as an EU Agency with the specific task of providing independent, evidence-based advice on fundamental rights. The report finds: LGBTI people aged 15 to 17 experience more harassment than their older peers. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, usually known in English as the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), is a Vienna-based agency of the European Union inaugurated on 1 March 2007. Welcome to the official Facebook page of the European Union Agency … Human rights in the EU: fundamental rights Institutions, agencies & bodies. The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. 666 were here. EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) European Institute for Gender Equality; Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women; The Charter of Fundamental Rights. Those rights designed to uphold the Dignity, Freedoms, Equality, Solidarity, Citizens' Rights and Justice of individuals in the EU are inalienable and universal. Charter of Fundamental Rights The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights have published their findings from their 2019 survey on LGBTI people in the EU and North Macedonia and Serbia, in May 2020. It was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 of 15 February 2007. Whistleblowers protection European Commission initiatives on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law. Addressing your complaint to the relevant national authority, government, national courts or a specialised human rights body. Its members have a combined area of 4,233,255.3 km 2 (1,634,469.0 sq mi) and an estimated total population of about 447 million. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which became legally binding in 2009, sets out the fundamental rights protected in the EU in a single document.