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Michael O'Flaherty
Local is where you have your human rights, local is where you thrive, local is where you hurt. Local is also the level of government, that has the most immediate impact for the wellbeing of yourself and your family. On 10 December 2019 - International Human Rights Day - FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, spoke about how Vienna is a global leader when it comes to embedding the notion of a human rights city.
Michael O'Flaherty
The European Jewish Association (EJA) organised an event on 20 January 2020 in Krakow to commemorate 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp. The Director spoke during a panel on antisemitism today. FRA’s participation to this event is of symbolic value, and a means to reaffirm its commitment to combating antisemitism.CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
Michael O’Flaherty
The FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, gave a plenary speech at the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the EU (COSAC) in Helsinki on 2 December, marking 10 years of the EU's Fundamental Rights Charter.
Michael O'Flaherty
FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty keynote address to the EASO Consultative Forum Plenary Meeting on the the initial steps of the asylum procedure that took place in Brussels on 12 November.
Michael O'Flaherty
Marking 10 years of the EU's Fundamental Rights Charter, FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty delivered a keynote speech on 'The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – a living instrument at the national level?' on 10 November in Brussels at the joint FRA, European Commission and Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU conference, 'Making the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights a reality for all: 10th anniversary of the Charter becoming legally binding'.
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Michael O'Flaherty
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.
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’.
Michael O’Flaherty
Speech delivered by Michael O'Flaherty at Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly side event on communicating rights on 10 April in Strasbourg.
Michael O'Flaherty
The FRA Director delivers a keynote speech on 17 June 2019 during the 'Building the present, designing the future: public policies for a more equal society' seminar organised by the International University Menéndez Pelayo in Santander Spain.
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Michael O'Flaherty
We shouldn’t be here this morning. It shouldn’t be that 100 years after the Philadelphia Declaration and the founding of the ILO that we should talk about systemic, criminal exploitation of labour. It shouldn’t be that we should talk about it in, of all places, Europe.