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Fundamental Rights Report 2019: In some Member States access to justice faces challenges. Judicial independence continues to cause
concerns. Victims’ procedural rights need more effective implementation. Gaps in preventing
violence against women and domestic violence remain.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Not all children benefit equally from efforts to guarantee child rights.
Some groups face particular difficulties.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: 2018 was a landmark year for data protection. New EU rules took effect and complaints of breaches increased significantly.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Although migrant arrivals to the EU continue to drop, it remains a divisive issue politically and
across society. Nearly 4 in 10 Europeans think immigration is more of a problem than a solution.
And nearly a half overestimate the number of irregular migrants in their country.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Anti-Gypsyism across the EU remains a persistent barrier to improving the social and
economic situation of Roma today.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Ethnic minorities and migrants continue to face harassment and discrimination across the EU,
despite longstanding EU laws against racism.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Efforts to advance equality moved ahead in some areas but remain stalled in others.
FRA took part in the UN OHCHR meeting on local governments and human rights on 17 June in Geneva.
On 20 June in Geneva, FRA presented its European Union Fundamental Rights Information Tool (EFRIS) to the annual meeting of United Nations Special Procedures and Mandate Holders.
FRA co-hosted a session on cybercrime and fundamental rights with the EU’s drugs agency (EMCDDA).
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: The Charter of Fundamental Rights is the EU’s bill of human rights. These rights and principles have to be respected and promoted by EU institutions and Member States whenever they act within EU law. Approaching the Charter’s 10th anniversary, Member States do not yet make full use of the potential it offers.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Implementing fundamental and human rights helps create a sustainable future.
Here the EU plays a key role.
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On 19 June, FRA gave a presentation to the Council of the EU’s FRONTIERS Working Party in Brussels.
The independent member appointed by the Council of Europe to FRA’s Management Board, Rainer Hofmann, gave a presentation to the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights on 20 June in Strasbourg.
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FRA joined a panel debate on rethinking the way you cover migration during the Global Editors Summit in Athens that took place from 13 to 14 June.
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Following a request from the Spanish authorities, FRA carried out its third capacity building workshop for staff working in the Spanish migrant reception centre, El Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes (CETI), in Melilla from 12 to 13 June.
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FRA took part in a meeting of the Council of Europe’s Ad hoc committee of experts on Roma and Traveler issues (CAHROM) in Toulouse from 11 to 14 June.
During the European Commission’s General Data Protection Regulation event, ‘One year of GDPR application: taking stock in the EU and beyond’, FRA launched the ‘General Data Protection Regulation – one year on’ focus paper.
Les professionnels des médias qui souhaitent améliorer la qualité de leur travail lorsqu’ils communiquent sur la migration ont désormais une aide à leur disposition ; en effet, la FRA lance une nouvelle plateforme d’apprentissage en ligne, développée par des journalistes pour des journalistes, afin de célébrer la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, le 20 juin.
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En 2018, plus de six personnes par jour en moyenne ont perdu la vie alors qu’elles traversaient la Méditerranée pour atteindre l’Europe. Les politiques migratoires plus strictes ont porté un coup aux efforts déployés par la société civile pour sauver des vies et mettre en sécurité les migrants en détresse en mer. Tel est le constat d’une recherche récente de la FRA.