Victims’ rights
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17 March 2025|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The European Protection Order (EPO) is a unique instrument of mutual recognition designed to protect individuals when they move to another Member Sate. The EPO is issued and executed by judicial authorities to address protection needs of individuals who already benefit from national protection...
21 February 2025|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
On the occasion of the European Day for Victims of Crime, on 22 February, Eurojust and the European Institute for Gender Equality released a joint report on the European Protection Order, EPO. The EPO is an instrument of mutual recognition designed to protect individuals who already benefit from...
04 September 2024|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
On 24 and 25 April 2024, Eurojust hosted its first ever symposium on victims’ rights, in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The event brought together practitioners and representatives from national and EU bodies to exchange best practices and discuss the...
26 April 2024|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust aims to step up its efforts to assist victims of crime. The Agency will work on ways to more effectively integrate victims’ rights into every step of judicial cooperation processes by national authorities: from the identification of victims to their right to remediation. This is the main...
22 March 2024|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The 2023 Eurojust Meeting on Counter-Terrorism focused on the amendments to the Eurojust Regulation concerning digital information exchange in terrorism cases and the European Judicial Counter-Terrorism Register, victims’ rights, including the work of Eurojust in the framework of victims’ rights and...
15 March 2024|PRESS RELEASE
With Eurojust support, authorities in Italy and Bulgaria have arrested 22 alleged members of an organised crime group (OCG), which forced tens of female victims into prostitution. During a coordinated action day earlier this week, most of the often relatively young victims were brought to safety...
22 February 2023|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
Victims of crime in the EU are entitled to a series of rights, regardless of their nationality, residence, the type of crime and the place where the crime was committed. The complexity of cross-border cases makes it especially difficult for judicial authorities to protect victims’ rights. Involving...
10 November 2022|PRESS RELEASE
At the request of the Spanish, German and Finnish authorities, Eurojust and Europol have supported an action against a massive investment fraud involving the use of cryptocurrencies. The victims of this major online fraud are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. During operations on 8 and 9...
21 September 2022|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust and the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have today published practical guidelines for civil society organisations on documenting core international crimes, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity. This will empower as well as support civil society...
07 September 2022|PRESS RELEASE
With the support of Eurojust, authorities in Finland, Germany, Belgium and Latvia have succeeded in striking a blow against the operators of various fraudulent online investment platforms that have defrauded victims from 11 different countries out of several million euros.
Eurojust is an agency of the European Union