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The FRA Director will have his first exchange of views following the European Parliament elections with its Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) in Brussels on 5 September.
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The EU-wide lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans and intersex (LGBTI) survey 2019 has closed. Around 140,000 LGBTI people of all ages and backgrounds shared their stories with us, topping the 93,000 that answered FRA’s first survey in 2012.
FRA will present its focus paper on data quality and artificial intelligence to the Council Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX) on 3 September in Brussels.
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On 28 August, a delegation of Romania’s National Council for Combating Discrimination and the Romanian Institute for Public Policy visited FRA.
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FRA spoke about migration narratives during a European Migration Network seminar in Slovakia that ran from 20 to 22 August.
On 26 August, during this year’s Alpbach Forum, FRA and the International Ombudsman Institute will run a session on human rights under pressure.
C’est avec une profonde tristesse que l’Agence européenne des droits fondamentaux a appris le décès de Giovanni Buttarelli, le contrôleur européen de la protection des données.
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Dans l’ensemble de l’UE, diverses initiatives prometteuses ont été mises en place afin d’aider les jeunes migrants à s’intégrer à la société européenne, à la suite de l’afflux massif de migrants et de réfugiés dans l’UE. Le 12 août, à l’occasion de la Journée internationale de la jeunesse, la FRA attire l’attention sur leur situation et invite instamment les États membres à redoubler d’efforts pour les aider à s’intégrer pleinement.
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Les Nazis ont persécuté, retenu en captivité et exécuté des centaines de milliers de Roms. Mais le génocide des Roms durant l’Holocauste n’a été formellement reconnu qu’à partir des années 1980. Le 2 août, journée de commémoration de l’Holocauste des Roms, il est temps de se souvenir de leurs souffrances et d’appeler à ce qu’il soit mis un terme à l’antitsiganisme que les communautés roms endurent depuis si longtemps et encore aujourd’hui.
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La privation alimentaire, les éloignements sans avis préalable et l’arrestation de travailleurs humanitaires effectuant des opérations de recherche et de sauvetage en mer sont autant de préoccupations en matière de droits fondamentaux identifiées par la FRA dans son dernier numéro de Migration quarterly. Ce bulletin rend compte des conséquences du durcissement des politiques et de la législation en matière de migration dans les États membres. Il met également en exergue les problèmes de longue date liés à la surpopulation et au traitement des demandes d’asile.
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The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU invited FRA to present its tools on the promotion of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to the Council’s Working Party on Fundamental Rights, Citizens Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP) in Brussels on 10 July 2019.
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FRA attended a conference on 9 July 2019 on the theme of ‘Racism, Xenophobia and Ethnic and Racial Discrimination in Portugal’, organised by the Portuguese Parliament’s Subcommittee for Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Committee of Legal Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees (1st Committee).
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FRA contributed to the side event ‘Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda: Leaving No One Behind while Accelerating SDG Implementation’ organized at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2019 on Sustainable Development on the theme of ‘Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality’ from 11-16 July 2019.
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FRA participated in the semi-annual meeting of the EBU Intercultural and Diversity Group on 11 June 2019 in Barcelona.
The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has invited the Director to participate in discussions between ministers of justice at the informal Justice and Home Affairs meeting in Helsinki on 19 July.
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On 4 July, FRA participated in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission‘s seminar De-institutionalisation and the implementation of the CRPD Article 19: Independent Living and being included in the community, at which it presented its report From institutions to community living for persons with disabilities: perspectives from the ground.
In the latest edition of his video blog, FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty focuses on the migration situation in the Mediterranean Sea and makes three proposals.
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The agency, as part of the European Union delegation, will take part in the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2019 on Sustainable Development.
Every year in July, the Institute for European Studies, the Diplomatische Akademie Wien – Vienna School of International Studies and the University of Vienna organise their joint inter-university summer school on EU policy making.
The United Nations Development Programme will hold an expert consultation on privacy, safety and security in collection, storage and use of data of LGBTI people and other marginalised populations in cyberspace.