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FRA will speak to the European and International Affairs Committee of the Vienna City Council on 6 November about the relevance of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Charter for regional and local authorities, as well as about its cooperation with the City of Vienna.
FRA’s Director will exchange views with the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in Brussels on 6 November.
FRA will speak at a working group on civic space during a conference in Brussels on 5 November on fundamental rights and the rule of law.
Partners involved in ‘Black History Month EU 2019’ (#BHMEU) will gather for a day of capacity building, networking and reflection in Brussels on 5 November.
FRA will speak at a joint meeting of the working group of the Council of the EU’s Working Parties on Fundamental Rights, Citizens Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP) and on Human rights (COHOM).
Significant increase in arrivals in Greece, overcrowding of reception centres and violence against migrants at the borders are some of the fundamental rights concerns FRA identifies in its latest migration quarterly report. It also highlights the situation in the Mediterranean, where boats with migrants were still being forced to remain at sea, waiting for weeks or days until they were allowed to disembark.
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The FRA Director will join this year’s Web Summit where some 70,000 people are expected to attend.
The Irish police force, the Garda Síochána, invited FRA to give a presentation on the experiences of discrimination, harassment and violence of Muslims and people of African descent across the EU.
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On 18 October, FRA took part in a Brussels event on interoperable EU IT-systems in the area of migration and security.
FRA presented its focus paper on returning unaccompanied children and fundamental rights considerations to a workshop of the Intergovernmental Consultation on migration, asylum and refugees.
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On 28 October in Strasbourg, FRA will take part in the Council of Europe’s annual meeting of the Ad hoc Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (CAHROM).
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FRA will take part in a meeting of International Special Envoys and Coordinators combating antisemitism in Munich on 28 and 29 October.
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Die jüngste Tragödie, bei der im Vereinigten Königreich 39 Menschen tot in einem Lkw aufgefunden wurden, machte deutlich, welchen enormen Preis Menschen an Schleuser zu zahlen bereit sind, die keinerlei Skrupel haben. Im Zuge dieses Ereignisses wiederholt die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) ihre Forderung nach mehr sicheren und legalen Einreisemöglichkeiten nach Europa, um der Schleuserkriminalität Einhalt zu gebieten.
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FRA spoke at a public hearing on 21 October in Brussels on the new EU Disability Strategy 2020-2030.
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The 2018 edition of the handbook on European non-discrimination law examines law stemming from the complementary systems of the EU non-discrimination directives and the European Convention on Human Rights, drawing on them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where these exist.
The 2018 edition of the handbook on European data protection law is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of law.
On 16 October in Tallinn, FRA joined a panel debate on the effects of digitalisation on data analytics and the use of artificial intelligence in area of justice and home affairs during eu-LISA’s annual conference.
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On 24 October, FRA contributed to the training of migration experts in Brussels from the Belgian institution responsible for the reception of asylum seekers, Fedasil.
On 23 October, FRA joined the Equinet Annual General Meeting.
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FRA contributed to the training for Schengen evaluators in the field of return and external borders on 21 and 22 October in Zagreb.