Presenting the Pathways to Justice toolkit and the Collective Redress database
The digiRISE project, launched in October 2022, is concluding its scope of work at the end of October 2024. We excited to present to you the final outputs, a result of our months-long work, nourishing discussions and collaborations with experts from across the EU.
Systemic and transformative change happens when impacted people take collective action and collaborate with others to build power to challenge the root of their oppression. With this project, we (co)created and shared information, strategies, and best practices designed to protect the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the digital sphere through strategic collective action litigation.
As explained in our previous blog post, we are excited to announce the first DFF Collective Redress database!
We hope to provide the foundational elements to build nourishing community inclusion and collaborations that will attempt to use legal tools such as collective redress actions to facilitate access to justice for everyone. In our website, you will find many resources created to assist you in uncovering collective redress in different jurisdictions. Specifically, you can find:
- Expert country reports from Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Portugal, and Belgium. We are grateful to all country report experts and acknowledge their valuable contributions and insights to digiRISE. You can download the collective redress country report bundle here. Translations in the countries’ native language will become available on our website very soon!
- A compare-and-contrast analysis report of ten jurisdictions in the European Union. This report, coauthored by our own Alexandra Giannopoulou, Professor Maria José Azar-Baud, Professor Ianika Tzankova, and dr. Ander Maglica, reveal the similarities and divergencies between national collective redress systems vis-à-vis the Representative Actions Directive.
The result of our digiRISE research activities, workshops, and discussions all of which led to the creation of a multi-country network of legal experts, litigators, academics, and civil society representatives culminated in the development of a Pathways to Justice toolkit.
With this toolkit, we collate and present information, strategies, and best practices designed to protect the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the digital sphere through strategic litigation. This Pathways to Justice toolkit was designed to support and guide you as you embark on your litigation strategy building. We hope that reading this booklet will help shine a light on the complex matrix of decision-making processes in the different pathways that are available for enforcing the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Whether you want to challenge an automated decision that affects your livelihood, surveillance and tracking of your everyday activities or the forced take-down of your online content, we have created a guide presenting the different options available to counter fundamental rights violations.
If you would like to know more about digiRISE or if you would like to collaborate on future projects, drop us a line at alexandra@digitalfreedomfund.org.
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