AKCIONI PLAN EU U OBLASTI LjUDSKIH PRAVA I DEMOKRATIJE ZA PERIOD 2015-2019

GORDANIĆ dr Jelica (Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), jelica@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

European Union is an economic organization, but recently under its authority comes to development of the basic principles of human rights and democracy. Important steps in this direction were adoption of the Strategic Framework for human rights and democracy, the establishment of an EU Special Representative for Human Rights and the adoption of the EU Action plan on human rights and democracy 2012-2014. After positive results achieved by this Action plan, in 2015 EU adopted new Action plan on human rights and democracy 2015-2019. New EU action plan focuses on the most important challenges of human rights, especially the ban on discrimination, development of human rights at the local level, the prevention of human rights violations in conflicts, active participation of civil society organizations in the development of human rights and the achievement of cooperation in this field with other international organizations, primarily the UN.

Keywords: European Union, human rights, democracy, the Action Plan, civil society organizations