The objective of this evaluation is to help the European Commission improve the impact of EIDHR support for torture prevention and rehabilitation centres. The evaluation focuses on the projects’ relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability and provides lessons and...

The Civil Society Facility (CSF) was established in 2008 under the Instrument for Pre-accession, with the purpose of supporting the development of an active civil society capable of participating in public debate on democracy, human rights, social inclusion and the rule of law. The CSF aims to...

The return of illegally-staying third-country nationals is one of the main pillars of the EU’s policy on migration and asylum. However, recent Eurostat data show that return rates at EU level have not improved despite the important increase in the number of rejected asylum applications and in...

The purpose of this evaluation is to provide an independent, evidence-based assessment of the scope and performance of implemented and on-going EU support for Rule of Law (RoL). It focuses on interventions funded by the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA I and II), the European...

Turkeyu0092s EU membership application is fraught with more difficulties than that of any other country to apply. The EU has been unwilling to rule Turkey out, but at the same time it has not fully committed to accepting Turkey as a member. At this point there is no definitive way to determine...

This report has been drafted for the European Network of Legal Experts in the non-discrimination field (on the grounds of Race or Ethnic origin, Age, Disability, Religion or belief and Sexual Orientation),and has been drafted as part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU...

The Directives aim to provide legal tools protecting individuals against discrimination in the public and in the private sphere. The values the Directives aim to protect are therefore part of the core of the German legal system. The regime of legal regulations envisaged by the Directives have,...