What do they think about the FRP?

What do civil society organisations think about the Fundamental Rights Platform?

VOICES FROM THE 5th FRP MEETING 2012

Allan Leas
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

"The Fundamental Rights Platform means an enormous amount to ECRE, because it achieves what we, as an individual organisation, can not do, and that is bringing together the largest group of human rights defenders in Europe."

Pam Bartlett Quintanilla
Access Info Europe

"In my opinion, the biggest challenge for the FRP is fostering a sense of cooperation and dialogue amongst different NGOs with different fundamental problems that they are working on, and different issues, different projects, and just creating a space where they can network. Both on international level but also national level, I think that more cooperation can be achieved, and that the FRP is ideally placed to help with that."

Roger Kiska
Alliance Defence Fund

"My feeling about the FRP is that it is internationally recognised, that is one of the premier human rights bodies that Europe has, and so our membership here is a badge of honour in a lot of ways. It gives us credibility, but it also gives us access to a great deal of data bases, survey information and networking which is incredible: meeting all these other NGOs from different fields of human rights."

Evelyne Paradis
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Intersex Association - European Region (ILGA-Europe)

"I quite liked the FRP meeting for two main reasons: I think this year it was very interactive, there was a lot of space for all of the participants to give their input and raise questions, so that was very positive. The second thing that I quite liked about this meeting was the workshop space and the abilitiy for the different groups represented here to present their work and raise questions with other participants, and that I thought was very constructive."

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VOICES FROM THE 4th FRP MEETING 2011

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Andreas Krisch
European Digital Rights

"An organisation like ours that is working on a broad range of topics in the digital domain profits from the FRP out of the diversity of the organisations that are represented in the FRP and the different views on fundamental rights, and it gives us feedback on the work that we do in the field of fundamental rights, and so it is very valuable for us."

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Catherine Twigg
European Roma Rights Centre (errc)

"The Fundamental Rights Platform is for me a promising initiative that provides a good model for consulation of civil society to organise and provide their input, which is critical to the formation of successful EU policy."

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Thomas Muller
Child Helpline International

"The Fundamental Rights Platform for me is the first honest approach of an EU agency towards civil society, and I am happy to be part of."

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VOICES FROM THE 3rd FRP MEETING 2010

Barbara Terenzi
Comitato per la promozione e protezione dei diritti umani - Centro Altiero Spinelli Universita' Roma Tre; L.A.W. Legal Aid Worldwide, Rome, Italy

"It is a very interesting experience as the platform is conceived in a way that it is like creating a European civil society; that's why we have representatives from various segments of society, of social life. This is really unique."

Peter Kinderman
Mental Health Europe, United Kingdom

"The idea of linking real society - civil society - to the working of the Agency is a very ambitious task from where I'm standing and I think the platform is moving very positively in that direction ... So, the debates we have, I think they do influence the working of the FRA and I think they are an opportunity for people closer to real life to say, this is what we're interested in."

Peter Kinderman at the 3rd FRP Meeting - Vienna - 2010

Mafalda Leal at the 3rd FRP Meeting - Vienna - 2010

Mafalda Leal
Eurochild, Belgium

"I think first of all it's an excellent initiative. It's an opportunity for people to network and - when there are meetings - to meet each other, and to exchange and to know what we are all doing."