EU Strategy on victims’ rights (2026 - 2030)

28 submissions in the snapshot (21 from organisations), portal total 28. Feedback list on the portal.

15 of 21 organisation submissions analysed; the model reads them as: supports 2 wants changes 13 6 without readable text, so not analysed.

• European Women's Lobby NGO, BEL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Launch an EU-wide awareness campaign on victims' rights that is co-designed with women's rights and survivor-led organisations.

    Launch an EU-wide awareness campaign on victims' rights, co-designed with women's rights and survivor-led organisations, making clear that support is not conditional on reporting to the police or on the outcome of proceedings,

  • Issue EU guidance on training for professionals and better risk assessment tools developed in partnership with women's rights organisations.

    Issue EU guidance on training for professionals, and on better risk assessment tools. Both should be developed in partnership with women's rights organisations, cover coercive control, trauma responses, risk assessment and technology-facilitated violence, and be subject to quality standards and evaluation,

  • Ensure that campaign materials, training, and reporting protocols address the stereotypes faced by migrant women, women with disabilities, and racialised women.

    Ensure that campaign materials, training and reporting protocols address the stereotypes faced by migrant women, women with disabilities and racialised women. They should be developed in a partnership with specialist organisations led by those women.

• Autism-Europe NGO, BEL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Establish practical EU guidance on procedural and reasonable accommodation for victims with disabilities, focusing on communication, sensory and cognitive accessibility.

    establishes practical EU guidance on procedural and reasonable accommodation for victims with disabilities, with explicit attention to communication, sensory and cognitive accessibility and the needs of autistic people with high support needs;

  • Ensure reporting mechanisms are accessible and respect the autonomy, will and preferences of the victim.

    ensures that reporting mechanisms, including digital reporting and third-party reporting, are accessible and respect the autonomy, will and preferences of the victim;

  • Make victim-support services, including the helpline, accessible to autistic people with different communication and support needs.

    makes victim-support services, including the 116 006 helpline, accessible to autistic people with different communication and support needs;

• Micro company, FRA Academic or research institution, FRA model reads as: wants changes source
  • Develop a European nomenclature of the heads of harm specific to international crimes and valuation guidance through the revision of Directive 2012/29/EU.

    The Strategy should commit the Commission to develop, with practitioners, national judges and victims’ organisations, a European nomenclature of the heads of harm specific to international crimes, together with valuation guidance.

  • Commit Member States to guarantee funding of awards made by their own courts by extending national compensation funds or using a dedicated fund financed by confiscated assets.

    The Strategy should commit Member States to guarantee funding of awards made by their own courts, by one of two routes:

• Micro company, LTU NGO, LTU model reads as: wants changes source
  • The EU Strategy should explicitly address the intersection of gender, disability, domestic and intimate partner violence, and mental health.

    First, the EU Strategy should explicitly address the intersection of gender, disability, domestic and intimate partner violence, and mental health.

  • Ensure professionals across justice, health, mental health and social services receive disability, gender, trauma and violence informed training.

    Professionals across justice, health, mental health and social services should therefore receive disability-, gender-, trauma- and violence-informed training, developed with the meaningful participation of women with disabilities and persons with lived experience.

  • The EU Strategy should promote accessible criminal justice and court documentation using Easy-to-Read, plain language and other appropriate communication formats.

    The EU Strategy should promote accessible criminal justice and court documentation, including information on victims’ rights, reporting procedures, individual needs assessments, procedural decisions, summonses, interview records, judgments, compensation and appeal procedures, using Easy-to-Read, plain language and other appropriate communication formats.

• Deutscher Anwaltverein (German Bar Association) Other, DEU; register: Trade unions and professional associations model reads as: wants changes source
  • Conduct all questioning of victims in connection with crimes against sexual self-determination as video interrogations.

    Sämtliche Vernehmungen von Geschädigten im Zusammenhang mit Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung sollten als Videovernehmungen durchgeführt werden.

  • Reject proposals to suspend data protection rules to publish the names or places of residence of accused or convicted persons.

    Der Vorschlag, Datenschutzvorschriften gegenüber Beschuldigten oder Verurteilten auszusetzen, um deren Namen oder Wohnorte zu veröffentlichen, sollte zurückgewiesen werden.

• European Disability Forum NGO, BEL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Develop EU guidelines on procedural accommodation for victims with disabilities in accessing justice.

    The European Commission should develop EU guidelines on procedural accommodation for victims with disabilities in accessing justice, including the police, prosecution services, courts and other justice bodies (as foreseen in the new phase of the Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).

  • Include disability-inclusive actions to improve identification and reporting of crime in closed and segregated settings.

    Disability-inclusive actions to improve identification and reporting of crime in closed and segregated settings;

  • Ensure actions on the accessibility of victim-support services, including an assessment of national helplines.

    Actions on accessibility of victim-support services, including an assessment of national helplines;

• European Pride Business Network (EPBN) NGO, DEU; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Ensure the specific experiences and vulnerabilities of LGBTIQ+ people are explicitly reflected in the future development of the victims' rights framework.

    we strongly support a further strengthening of the EU victims’ rights framework and believe that the specific experiences and vulnerabilities of LGBTIQ+ people should be more explicitly reflected in its future development.

  • Address the disparity in criminalization among Member States regarding criminalized discrimination and hate crimes.

    Our request is more limited: on the one hand, we want to focus our contribution on criminalized discrimination and hate crimes, and highlight the disparity in criminalization among Member States as one of the issues the Strategy must address, since it determines access to victim status, reporting, and protection.

  • Recognise Civil Society Organisations formally committed to combating discrimination as playing an active role in supporting victims.

    And also on the need to ensure that victims never feel left on their own, and that Civil society Organisations formally committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and combating discrimination are also recognised as playing an active role in supporting victims.

• International Planned Parenthood Federation - European Network (IPPF EN) NGO, BEL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Member States should go beyond the minimum requirements of the Directives to ensure comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers.

    encourage Member States to go beyond these requirements and ensure that victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers in line with international human rights and public health standards.

• Danish Family Planning Association, Sex & Samfund NGO, DNK model reads as: supports source
  • Encourage Member States to go beyond minimum requirements to ensure victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers.

    encourage Member States to go beyond these requirements and ensure that victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers in line with international human rights and public health standards.

• Rutgers NGO, NLD model reads as: wants changes source
  • Encourage Member States to go beyond the minimum requirements and ensure victims can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers.

    encourage Member States to go beyond these requirements and ensure that victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers in line with international human rights and public health standards.

• Center for Reproductive Rights NGO, CHE; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
• Micro company, AUT NGO, AUT model reads as: supports source
  • Encourage Member States to go beyond minimum requirements and ensure victims can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers.

    encourage Member States to go beyond these requirements and ensure that victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers in line with international human rights and public health standards.

• Väestöliitto ry NGO, FIN model reads as: wants changes source
• Fundacja na rzecz Kobiet i Planowania Rodziny NGO, POL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source
  • Encourage Member States to go beyond the requirements of the Directives to ensure victims can access comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare without discrimination, delay, or barriers.

    encourage Member States to go beyond these requirements and ensure that victims of sexual violence can access comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive healthcare, without discrimination, delay, or unnecessary barriers in line with international human rights and public health standards.

• Sensoa (Belgium) NGO, BEL; register: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar model reads as: wants changes source