The European Union and Human Rights Monitoring

Gras, Jutta
Erik Castrén Institute Research Reports 5/1999. Forum Iuris Helsinki 2000.

In recent years, the European Union has initiated many developments relating to the protection of human rights. These range from the inclusion of human rights provisions in its agreements with third states to the creation of a legal basis for human rights protection within the Union itself. That raises the inevitable question as to how compliance with human rights can be monitored, and by whom, and it is this question that is addressed in the present study. The study covers the various monitoring mechanisms operated by and within the Union comprehensively and in depth.

Lue EU:n vuosittainen ihmisoikeusraportti (Uusin, v. 2003)