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Talk by Sarah Wishart of Rights Info at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
Talk by Szczepan Orlowski of Animorph at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
In this edition Michael O'Flaherty reports back from his visit to the asylum seeker facility in Lesbos and calls for the support of all EU Member States to improve in particular the situation of unaccompanied children.
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FRA's Director Michael O'Flaherty's keynote speech on the interaction between democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights for the opening session of conference on 10 September in Helsinki organised by the Finnish Presidency of the EU.
On 18 October, a delegation led by the Deputy Ombudsman, Maija Sakslin of the office of the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland and the Human Rights Centre, Sirpa Rautio, will visit FRA.
The Austrian Chamber of Labour organised a workshop to discuss the results of a recent study on discrimination with experts from European institutions, trade unions, Equality bodies and civil society.
Michael O’Flaherty
FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty delivers keynote speech in Paris on 17 October on fundamental rights-based policing during the opening of the 5th IPCAN seminar, ‘Relations of the police and population: challenges and practices’.
One in four children under 18 are at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the European Union – one of the world’s richest regions. But the promotion and protection of the rights of the child are one of the EU’s core objectives. On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, FRA calls once again on the EU and its Member States, all parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to prioritise investment areas to reduce child poverty to the levels aspired to by the sustainable development goal (SDG 1) on poverty.
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FRA and the French ‘Defender of Rights’ are jointly organising an international seminar on the challenges of relations between the police and the public as well as current practices.
On 17 October, on the eve of EU Anti-Trafficking Day, FRA will present the recent guide on EU children deprived of parental care found in other Member States.
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FRA will host the annual meeting of the European Coordination Committee of Human Rights Documentation.
On 16 October in Vienna, the FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, will deliver the opening speech at an event on ‘Democracy, human rights and the rule of law: how best to protect and promote the founding values of the EU’.
Talk by Flavia Kleiner of Operation Libero to the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty gave the opening talk at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at the Agency on 3-4 October 2019.
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The European Commission has invited FRA to provide training on data on children on 14 October in Brussels.
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The agency’s National Liaison Officers (NLOs) will meet in Vienna from 14 to 15 October to discuss FRA’s cooperation with EU Member States.
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FRA has been regularly visiting Greek migration hotspots since 2016.
A delegation of FRA’s Management team will meet the Council of Europe on 10 and 11 October in Strasbourg to discuss how to further strengthen cooperation.
At the invitation of the European Commission, FRA contributed to NGO discussions on the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to migrants.
Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU invited FRA to speak on the economic and social inequalities among Roma and migrant women in the EU during its high-level gender equality conference.