FRA’s Director met Vienna Vice-Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr, responsible for Education, Youth, Integration and Transparency on 6 September. The meeting was at the invitation of the Vienna Human Rights Commissioner, Shams Asadi.

FRA released Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Swedish versions of its Fundamental Rights Charter trainers’ manual. This completes the set of 22 EU languages.

FRA took part in a workshop on 5 August in Dornbirn on the newly-established and first human rights square in Vorarlberg. The square will be officially opened on 10 December.

FRA attended online Roma workshops organised by the UN Development Programme and the World Bank. They were part of the EU-funded project Multi-country Survey on the socio-economic vulnerabilities of Roma in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Between 18 and 20 June, FRA contributed to training on the Entry Exit System (EES). The system will register biometric data of non-EU nationals travelling to the EU as of October 2024.

Versäumnisse bei der Rettung und Unterstützung von Migranten in Not, Misshandlung und Missbrauch sind nur einige der schwerwiegenden und lebensbedrohlichen Menschenrechtsverletzungen an den Land- und Seeaußengrenzen der EU, die nicht ordnungsgemäß untersucht werden. Der jüngste Bericht der EU-Agentur für Grundrechte (FRA) zeigt systemische Lücken und Hindernisse bei der Untersuchung solcher Verstöße auf. Das Migrations- und Asylpaket bietet die Möglichkeit, diese Probleme anzugehen. In dem Bericht werden konkrete Schritte vorgeschlagen, um sicherzustellen, dass Vorfälle mit tödlichem Ausgang und Misshandlung an den EU-Grenzen wirksam untersucht werden.

FRA took part in the 10th EU human rights dialogue with Indonesia hosted by the EU External Action Service (EEAS). FRA’s joined the EU delegation at the request of new EU Special Representative on Human Rights, Olof Skoog.

On 8 and 9 July, FRA delivered training during a seminar for defence lawyers organised by the European Academy of European Law (ERA) and co-financed by the EU.

FRA joined the first day of the EU Summer School organised for Luxembourg-based EU institutions on 9 July.