Introduction: Addressing the Challenges Confronting the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
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Description
Human rights depend for their protection on adequate legislative and regulatory frameworks, as well as on the possibility of effective judicial enforcement. They depend on the allocation of adequate resources. What this collection of essays illustrates is how the realisation of human rights depends also on appropriate governance mechanisms designed to ensure that human rights are taken fully into account, especially in the preliminary stages of policy setting and law-making, and on the participation of the relevant stakeholders in the design and implementation of these policies. This third dimension is of particular importance in the context of the European Union. The present study of the potential contribution to be made by a new EU Fundamental Rights Agency not only considers how best it might perform its work; taking this debate as its departure point, it also identifies, more broadly, the challenges that face all such agencies in the human rights field.
Source Publication
Monitoring Fundamental Rights in the EU: The Contribution of the Fundamental Rights Agency
Source Editors/Authors
Philip Alston, Olivier De Schutter
Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
De Schutter, Olivier and Alston, Philip G., "Introduction: Addressing the Challenges Confronting the EU Fundamental Rights Agency" (2005). Faculty Chapters. 37.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/37
