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Asylum, migration and borders
Trafficking and labour exploitation

European Parliament to discuss FRA’s Employers Sanctions Directive report

FRA will present its study on role of the Employers Sanctions Directive on protecting irregular migrants from labour exploitation to the European Parliament.
Download the Employers Sanctions Directive report
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Support for human rights systems and defenders

European Parliament delegation visits FRA

An official delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will visit FRA on 11 October.
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Artificial intelligence and big data
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Business discusses trustworthy AI

FRA provided a keynote presentation on 1 October to a business workshop on trustworthy AI.
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Civil society

New European Commission Competence Center on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

FRA joined the official online launch of the new European Commission Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy on 6 October. The centre provides services, guidance and tools to support the development of socially robust policy through citizen engagement practices.
Find more about the Fundamental Rights Platform
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies

Urban initiatives, the EU and fundamental rights: connecting the dots

FRA will speak at a webinar on how are urban initiatives and actions supporting green, just and productive cities in the EU?
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Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Unlawful profiling

Public webinar explores ethnic profiling

FRA will participate in a public webinar on ethnic profiling.
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Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Judicial cooperation and rule of law

European Judicial Training Network's virtual study visit to FRA

The regular European Judicial Training Network study visit of judges and prosecutors to FRA will take place as a virtual visit on 4 October.
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Asylum, migration and borders
Access to asylum

Major European conference focuses on the EU’s new migration and asylum pact

FRA joined the annual conference of the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum Law in Europe.
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Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Children, youth and older people

Against ageism and towards active social citizenship for older people

The Council of Europe, FRA, ENNHRI, Equinet collaborative platform on social and economic rights met on 27 September.
Visit the collaborative platform
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Asylum, migration and borders

Legal expert workshop on access to information in national security-related immigration cases

FRA gave a presentation at an expert legal workshop on the right to know – access to classified data in immigration cases.
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Asylum, migration and borders

Webinar explores migration-related implications of the situation in Afghanistan

FRA took part in an online roundtable exploring the EU’s response to the situation in Afghanistan and its migration-related implications.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Civil society

How to protect civic space in the EU

FRA held a webinar with its civil society network, the Fundamental Rights Platform to present its ‘Protecting civic space in the EU’ report.
Download the report on protecting civic space
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies

NHRI status update now out

On 28 September, FRA issued an update of its data on the accreditation status and mandates of National Human Rights Institutions.
Access update
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Civil society

Protecting civic space in the EU

FRA will hold a webinar with its civil society network, the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP), to present and discuss the findings and related opinions from its new report on ‘Protecting civic space in the EU’.
Get civic space report
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies

Rick Lawson elected new FRA Management Board Vice-Chair

FRA’s Management Board elected Rick Lawson as its new Vice-Chair on 24 September. He will take office on 11 October.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders

Fundamental Rights Forum presentation in FREMP

FRA will present its Fundamental Rights Forum to the Council of the EU on 27 September.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O’Flaherty

European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation graduation ceremony

FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty addresses gradautes on 26 September 2021 in Venice during their Graduation Ceremony of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation.

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Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems

Training on the risk to rights of large scale EU IT-systems

FRA helped train eu-LISA staff on the fundamental rights implications of large-scale EU IT-systems.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Inter-governmental human rights systems

International organisations exchange views on protecting human rights defenders

Staff from intergovernmental organisations and EU institutions responsible for cooperation with civil society and for supporting human rights defenders met online on 23 September.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies

FRA Director strengthens ties in France

FRA’s Director was in France to discuss topical human rights issues and to explore continued cooperation, in particular during the upcoming French Presidency of the EU.