Human rights in Estonia

Human rights in Estonia are acknowledged as being generally respected by the government. Estonia has been classified as a full democracy, with moderate privacy and human development in Europe. Individuals are guaranteed their basic rights under the constitution, legislative acts, and treaties relating to human rights ratified by the Estonian government. As of 2025, Estonia was ranked 2nd in the world by press freedoms.

Several international and human rights organisations, such as Human Rights Watch, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 1993 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2008 have found little major apparent issues or patterns of systematic abuse of human rights or discrimination on ethnic grounds, while others, such as Amnesty International in 2009, have raised concerns regarding immigrants, and regarding the Russophone minority, who "suffer unemployment rates almost twice as high as among ethnic Estonians".

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