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Upon request by the Spanish authorities, the agency, together with the European Asylum Support Office and the UN’s Refugee Agency Spain, is carrying a workshop in Seville on 13 and 14 May for staff working in the first reception centre for migrants.
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The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Council of Europe will meet in Vienna from 13 to 14 May.
On 14 May in Brussels, the agency will take part in the annual ENNHRI Working Group meeting of monitoring mechanisms on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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Michael O'Flaherty
Speech by the FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, at the 2019 Sheehy Skeffington School on Social Justice and Human Rights, Dublin, 10 May 2019.
On 3 May, the FRA Director gave the keynote speech at the event ‘Media for democracy, journalism and elections in times of disinformation’ in Geneva.
The agency joined the European Business Summit, on 6–7 May in Brussels.
From 7 to 8 May, representatives from intergovernmental organisations and EU institutions responsible for cooperation with civil society and for supporting human rights defenders in Europe and Central Asia met in Warsaw.
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This year’s conference of European Data Protection Authorities will be held in Tbilisi from 9 to 10 May.
On 8 May, the FRA Director will exchange views with the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament.
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The agency will facilitate a workshop together with the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights for law enforcement officers and officials responsible for (hate) crime registration in Spain on 7 and 8 May.
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From 6 to 7 May in Trier, the agency will take part in a training seminar on disability and non-discrimination in the EU.
The agency’s Scientific Committee will meet on 6 May at FRA.
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The agency will take part in a seminar on electronic evidence organised by the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary in Madrid from 6 to 8 May.
Michael O’Flaherty
Speech during a UN panel debate in Geneva on Media for democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2019.
In London on 25 April, the agency took part in a meeting of the SERISS board of strategic advice.
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From 24 to 26 April, the agency took part in a training course offered by the European Asylum Support Office on reception delivered to Spanish reception staff, Ministry of Labour, Migrations and Social Security as well as to the Asylum Office.
Karoline Edtstadler, State Secretary at the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, and Ariel Muzicant, Vice-President of the European Jewish Congress, will speak at an event in Vienna on 30 April which addresses antisemitism in Austria.
The agency will host a roundtable discussion on fighting antisemitism in Austria at FRA on 30 April.
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Michael O'Flaherty
Speech by the FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty on fundamental rights and the EU during the panel debate at the 134th Plenary Session of the Committee of the Regions, 11 April 2019.
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On 25 and 26 April, the agency attended a European conference on LGBTIQ+ seniors, organised by the Rainbow Cities Network, the cities of Amsterdam, Munich and Ghent, together with Pink50+ and Ihlia LGBTI Heritage.