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On 17 October, on the eve of EU Anti-Trafficking Day, FRA will present the recent guide on EU children deprived of parental care found in other Member States.
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FRA and the French ‘Defender of Rights’ are jointly organising an international seminar on the challenges of relations between the police and the public as well as current practices.
On 16 October in Vienna, the FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, will deliver the opening speech at an event on ‘Democracy, human rights and the rule of law: how best to protect and promote the founding values of the EU’.
Talk by Flavia Kleiner of Operation Libero to the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at FRA on 3-4 October 2019.
FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty gave the opening talk at the Human Rights Communicators' Workshop held at the Agency on 3-4 October 2019.
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FRA has been regularly visiting Greek migration hotspots since 2016.
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The agency’s National Liaison Officers (NLOs) will meet in Vienna from 14 to 15 October to discuss FRA’s cooperation with EU Member States.
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The European Commission has invited FRA to provide training on data on children on 14 October in Brussels.
A delegation of FRA’s Management team will meet the Council of Europe on 10 and 11 October in Strasbourg to discuss how to further strengthen cooperation.
At the invitation of the European Commission, FRA contributed to NGO discussions on the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to migrants.
Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU invited FRA to speak on the economic and social inequalities among Roma and migrant women in the EU during its high-level gender equality conference.
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The EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies will end in 2020.
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On invitation of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FRA presented evidence on discrimination to the Social Questions Working Party of the Council in Brussels on 7 October.
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On 1 October in the Hague, FRA presented its work in the area of the European arrest warrant, mutual trust and criminal detention to European Judicial Network contact points.
On 3 October, FRA presented the guidelines on improving the collection and use of equality data at a national stakeholder conference organised in Dublin by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.
FRA will join a workshop on 10 October in Rome on the family as a hub for social policies.
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FRA will join a conference on ‘Protecting Civic Space in the European Union’, which is being organised by the UN Human Rights Regional Office for Europe (OHRHC).
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FRA will join the 7th Europol-INTERPOL cybercrime conference on law enforcement in the connected future.
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FRA will join the third in a row of four child guarantee workshops organised by the European Commission.
FRA, in cooperation with the European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet), will host a capacity-building workshop on unlawful profiling on 9 October in Nicosia.