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FRA took part in the annual conference marking European Day of Persons with Disabilities, organised by the European Commission and the European Disability Forum.
Missing Children Europe invited FRA to present its child protection guide focusing on victims of trafficking during a policy debate.
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The FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty will be in Berlin to prepare for the forthcoming German Presidency of the Council of the EU.
European Day of Persons with Disabilities is a time to remind ourselves of the urgent need to live up to our commitments to achieve equality for all. This is especially pressing since the European Disability Strategy will end in 2020.
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FRA will take part in the meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in Luxembourg on 3 December
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FRA will present the situation of human rights defenders in the EU during the EU NGO Forum in Brussels from 3 to 4 December.
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FRA will contribute to a UN’s Human Rights Council debate in Geneva on 3 December.
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EU Justice Ministers will meet on 3 December in Brussels.
Ensuring access to effective remedy is an important part of global efforts to encourage business conduct that respects human rights. A new Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) paper looks at examples of business-related human rights abuse and identifies key factors facilitating access to remedy. A comparative report will follow in 2020, which will identify obstacles for victims seeking justice and put forward proposals to overcome them.
FRA will chair a panel discussion on access to remedies in practice that will look at what are the critical barriers and next steps to protecting migrants workers.
The FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, will speak during the plenary meeting of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the EU (COSAC) in Helsinki on 2 December.
Improve law and policies by always checking the applicability of the Charter!
Cities as well as local and regional level governments are well placed to address many fundamental rights issues. Their work on many day-to-day issues are closely related to human rights, but far from always dealt with in those terms. The localisation of rights creates great opportunities to empower cities and other local governments. This was a key message from a group of experts and human rights cities' practitioners brought together by FRA on 27-28 November in Brussels.
Ten years ago on 1 December, the full force of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Charter came into play. This landmark bill of rights for the EU has the power to make a difference. One decade on, it is yet to reach its full potential. This is changing, slowly but surely.
FRA The human rights commission of the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), visited FRA on 25 November for an exchange of practices.
FRA joined the Council of Europe’s Octopus Conference on cybercrime in Strasbourg from 10 to 22 November.
FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty presented key challenges for civil society organisations in the EU and suggested ways forward to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 28 November.
On 20 November in Brussels, FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty met the new European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson to inform her of relevant FRA work.
FRA will take part in the 9th meeting of its collaborative platform on social and economic rights.
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FRA will be a partner of the international human rights film festival, this human world, for the third year.