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The Agency presented figures on cyber-stalking and cyber-harassment from its violence against women survey during a panel discussion on cybercrime against women and girls in Vienna on 26 November.
The European Commission hosted an expert meeting in Brussels on 3 December to discuss the implementation of the 2017 Communication on the protection of children in migration.
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Choosing where to live, with whom, and what to eat, when, are some of the realities of independent living that most of us take for granted. But for people with disabilities theory and practice can be worlds apart, finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest report. It explores what enables and what hinders the drive towards independent community living for people with disabilities.
FRA's latest report explores what enables and what hinders the drive towards independent community living for people with disabilities.
The EU and all its Member States are legally bound to the UN’s Disability Convention. They have a duty to ensure people with disabilities can live independently in the community rather than in institutions.
On 4 December, the Agency will join a seminar in Brussels of churches and religious communities to discuss sharing responsibility for religion and human rights within the EU.
On 4 December, the agency and the European Expert Group on transition from institutional to community-based care, will launch the findings of FRA's research at a seminar in Brussels. It will be an opportunity to reflect on the findings and to discuss how this evidence can support policy makers and practitioners to implement the transition from institutional to community living successfully.
The agency will be part of a high-level panel at the European Parliament on ‘Witnessed Domestic Violence: An EU roadmap to protect children from all forms of domestic violence’ in Brussels on 4 December.
A new online tool to help free Muslims from hatred has just been released by FRA. The anti-Muslim hatred database is an easy-to-use overview of information on hate crime, hate speech and discrimination against Muslims across the EU.
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The Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice in Strasbourg will meet on 3 and 4 December.
FRA’s Director will launch the Agency's new database on anti-Muslim hatred during a high-level meeting about tackling discrimination against Muslims in the EU, organised by the European Commission in Brussels.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held an expert meeting on measuring poverty and inequality from 29 to 30 November in Vienna.
On 28 and 29 November, the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), in close cooperation with the European Commission (EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator’s Office), brought together at Eurojust, the EU Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, experts and partners from across the European Union to enhance prevention of trafficking of EU children. Participants included representatives from Eurojust, Europol, senior judges and prosecutors, child protection staff, central authorities established under the Brussels II Regulation, law enforcement officials, as well as civil society experts.
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Member States holding the Presidencies of the Council of the EU can play a key leadership role in addressing the EU’s persisting fundamental rights challenges, said the FRA Director in his keynote address at an expert seminar in Helsinki on 29 November.
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) is organising a conference on artificial intelligence and humane justice at the University of Lille on 30 November.
On 26 November, the Agency spoke during at an event organised by the Greek Ombudsman on forced return monitoring.
As a follow-up to the Director’s visit to Spain in October, the Agency carried out a technical visit to Spain from 18 to 22 November focusing on migration and asylum.
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FRA’s Director will visit Helsinki from 29 to 30 November to discuss cooperation with the Finnish government during Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU that will start on 1 July 2019.
The Agency will present its work on civil society space at a dedicated workshop on ‘Protection and promotion of the civil society space in Europe’ on 29 November at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Black people in the EU face unacceptable difficulties in simply finding somewhere to live because of their skin colour.