EUMAP (the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program) monitors the development of selected human rights and rule of law issues in both the European Union and in its candidate and potential candidate countries.

The program works with national experts and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to compile reports that are distributed widely throughout Europe and internationally. The reports are designed to encourage broader participation in the process of articulating the EU’s common democratic values as well as in ongoing monitoring of compliance with human rights standards throughout the union.

EUMAP is currently focusing on the following issues:

• Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma (in cooperation with OSI's Education Support Program and Roma Participation Program)
• Muslims in EU Cities
• Television Across Europe: Regulation, Policy, and Independence (in cooperation with OSI's Media Program)

Previous EUMAP reports have focused on minority protection, people with intellectual disabilities, judicial independence, judicial capacity, and corruption and anticorruption policy. A report on equal opportunities for women and men was produced by OSI's International Women's Program in cooperation with EUMAP.

The EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program maintains its own separate website at www.eumap.org.

In 2006, EUMAP completed its work on a monitoring report that examined the rights of people with intellectual disabilities in 12 countries, and presented another report on the state of television broadcasting in 20 European countries. The program also initiated a new monitoring exercise looking at equal access to quality education for Roma in nine European states, and a series of background reports on the situation of Muslims in seven European countries.

Read more about EUMAP's 2006 activities.