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Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Implementing fundamental and human rights helps create a sustainable future.
Here the EU plays a key role.
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.
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.
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.
Help is at hand for media professionals seeking to enhance the quality of their work when reporting about migration, as FRA releases a new e-learning platform developed by journalists for journalists to mark World Refugee Day on 20 June.
Over six people per day on average died crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe in 2018. Tougher migration policies have been undermining civil society rescue efforts to save lives and bring migrants in distress at sea to safety, as recent FRA research shows.
On 19 June, FRA will take part in the plenary session of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2019, which will take place at the World Forum The Hague.
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FRA will give a presentation on EU data protection law and fundamental rights during the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) course on data protection.
Michael O’Flaherty
Those of us who care about human rights, including of LGBTI persons, need to be outraged and cry out in defence of what has been achieved so far. There are those who would dismantle the human rights protection system – what has been called modernity’s greatest achievement. Wake up to that, wake up to the threat, wake up to the risk. As the late Stephane Hessel put it, it is time to ‘Indignez vous’, in French, which means ‘get indignant’. And let’s marshal that indignation into smart campaigns that cannot be ignored.
FRA will join a meeting on 17 June in Geneva on local governments for human rights – addressing economic and social inequalities at local level.
On 17 June in Brussels, FRA will speak at the conference “Moving towards independent living and community-based care – EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services “ organised by the European Commission and the ESF Transnational Platform.
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FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty will be one of the keynote speakers at an international seminar on ‘Building the present, designing the future: public policies for a more equal society’.
In this video blog Michael O'Flaherty focuses on EuroPride and the need to stand up for the fundamental rights of the LGBTIQ community.
Almost one quarter of trafficked victims registered in the EU are children. EU child victims are twice the number of non EU child victims, with girls especially targeted. So what can be done? A new guide developed by FRA suggests 10 ways to protect children moving across EU Member States without parental care.
The International Press Institute World Congress took place in Geneva from 4 to 5 June. While there, FRA alongside France TV, Google and Twitter, took part in a panel debate on ‘Stopping hacks, data abuse and disinformation in Europe: what works and who’s responsible’.
Civil society organisations largely understand the EU’s new data protection rules. But they find it challenging to implement them even though it did not much affect their daily work, finds a FRA focus paper one year after the rules took effect.
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A EuroPride conference this year will take place from 12 to 14 June in Vienna. FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty will deliver the conference keynote speech on where we are, how we got there and where we need to go.