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In this video message FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty speaks about LGBTI equality on the occasion of the Global Pride 2020:
https://www.globalpride2020.org/
Hundreds of Pride marches and events were cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19.
FRA spoke at the annual meeting of the EU Framework for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and ENNHRI’s Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 22 June.
FRA spoke about the fundamental rights implications of the storage and use of biometric data and algorithmic profiling in border management during an ODIHR expert consultation on 18 June.
On 26 June, FRA joined the first exchange of views of the Council of Europe’s Child Rights Steering Committee.
FRA will take part in a workshop to raise awareness on discriminatory and unlawful profiling.
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On 24 and 25 June, FRA will host interactive online sessions to mark the launch of the report ‘What do fundamental rights mean for people in the EU?’
Laut einer Umfrage der Europäischen Agentur für Grundrechte (FRA) betrachten die meisten Bürgerinnen und Bürger die Menschenrechte als Grundlage für eine gerechtere Gesellschaft. Wer jedoch finanzielle Schwierigkeiten hat, jung ist oder einer gefährdeten Gruppe angehört, fühlt sich oftmals von den Menschenrechten ausgeschlossen. Die Erhebung der FRA zu Grundrechten verdeutlicht, dass sich tiefe Risse durch die europäische Gesellschaft ziehen. Die Regierungen müssen den Europäerinnen und Europäern ihre Menschenrechte wieder näherbringen, damit alle gleichermaßen davon profitieren können.
FRA, as co-chair of the Frontex Consultative Forum, will chair a meeting with Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer on 24 June.
On 23 June, FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty will present the key findings of the Fundamental Rights Report 2020 to the Working Party on Fundamental Rights, Citizens Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP) of the Council of the EU.
On 23 June, in the run-up to the German Presidency of the EU Council, FRA will host a webinar for legal staff of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany.
As EU countries continue rolling out new coronavirus contact-tracing apps, the data protection and privacy risks remain high on the agenda. Amid these developments, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) renew their cooperation agreement today to further strengthen data protection across the EU. Both FRA and EDPS argue that respect for fundamental rights, including privacy and data protection, has to be centre stage to make tracing apps, or any other technology, a success.
The OECD held its annual Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct on 17 June.
On 16 June, FRA contributed to an ARIADNE network webinar on the role of cities in promoting and protecting human rights and how philanthropy can help.
FRA moderated a webinar on 19 June on universities and human rights cities. The Global Campus of Human Rights invited representatives from over 20 universities to take part.
On 12 June, FRA participated in the first project board meeting for the Creating system for quantitative data collection to evaluate the situation of Roma in the Czech Society project.
The European Commission invited FRA to provide fundamental rights input to the 26th meeting of the European Migration Network (EMN) Return Expert Group.
Michael O'Flaherty
FRA’s Director addressed a conference on 18 June 2020 on Fighting discrimination on grounds of religion and ethnicity: vulnerabilities of Muslim communities and the effects of COVID-19 crisis. the vulnerabilities of Muslim communities in the EU. The conference was a joint initiative by the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Commission and the European network of Equality bodies, Equinet. Tommaso Chiamparino, European Commission Coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred chaired the event.
Nach Schätzungen der Internationalen Organisation für Migration starben 2019 durchschnittlich fünf Menschen pro Tag bei dem Versuch, über das Mittelmeer nach Europa zu gelangen. Im Vorfeld des Weltflüchtlingstages wies die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) auf die anhaltenden Schwierigkeiten hin, die bei den Rettungsbemühungen der Zivilgesellschaft im Mittelmeerraum auftreten und die sich durch die COVID19-Pandemie noch weiter verstärkt haben.
Während die Regierungen über den Einsatz von Technologien diskutieren, mit denen die Verbreitung von COVID-19 gestoppt werden kann, sind viele Europäerinnen und Europäer nicht bereit, ihre personenbezogenen Daten an öffentliche und private Stellen weiterzugeben. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Umfrage zu Grundrechten, die die EU-Grundrechteagentur FRA vor der Pandemie durchgeführt hat.