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FRA participated in the EEA and Norway Grants Financial Mechanism Office’s second International Partner Organisation coordination meeting in Brussels on 27 June.
Event
On 4 July, Europol is hosting a conference in The Hague on inclusive practices in law Enforcement: protecting our diversity.
FRA will host a group of young lawyers from Germany on 3 July.
Der Datensatz zur zweiten Antisemitismus-Erhebung der FRA steht nun für die weitere Nutzung durch die Wissenschaft zur Verfügung. Der Datensatz umfasst umfangreiche Angaben von über 16 000 Angehörigen der jüdischen Bevölkerung in 12 EU-Mitgliedstaaten zu ihren Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen im Zusammenhang mit Antisemitismus.
On 1 July, at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, FRA will participate in a roundtable discussion on the experiences, challenges and successes of EU fundamental rights training and online learning in particular.
FRA will deliver a keynote speech during a University College Dublin Workshop on Implementing Machine Ethics.
Michael O'Flaherty
The FRA Director delivers a keynote speech on 17 June 2019 during the 'Building the present, designing the future: public policies for a more equal society' seminar organised by the International University Menéndez Pelayo in Santander Spain.
Speech
Michael O'Flaherty
We shouldn’t be here this morning. It shouldn’t be that 100 years after the Philadelphia Declaration and the founding of the ILO that we should talk about systemic, criminal exploitation of labour. It shouldn’t be that we should talk about it in, of all places, Europe.
Opening Video for FRA event - From wrongs to rights: ending severe labour exploitation.
Die europäischen Regierungen müssen dringend mehr tun, um die Ausbeutung der Arbeitskraft in Unternehmen, Fabriken und landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben zu bekämpfen. Dies betont der heute veröffentlichte Forschungsbericht der FRA. Hunderte befragte ausgebeutete Arbeitnehmerinnen und -nehmer geben aus erster Hand Aufschluss über die illegalen Praktiken in Landwirtschaft, Baugewerbe, Hausarbeit, Hotel- und Gaststättengewerbe, Fertigung und Verkehr.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Ten years after the UN’s Disability Convention entered into force, 2018 saw it continue
to drive advances in disability rights across the EU.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: In some Member States access to justice faces challenges. Judicial independence continues to cause
concerns. Victims’ procedural rights need more effective implementation. Gaps in preventing
violence against women and domestic violence remain.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Not all children benefit equally from efforts to guarantee child rights.
Some groups face particular difficulties.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: 2018 was a landmark year for data protection. New EU rules took effect and complaints of breaches increased significantly.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Although migrant arrivals to the EU continue to drop, it remains a divisive issue politically and
across society. Nearly 4 in 10 Europeans think immigration is more of a problem than a solution.
And nearly a half overestimate the number of irregular migrants in their country.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Anti-Gypsyism across the EU remains a persistent barrier to improving the social and
economic situation of Roma today.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Ethnic minorities and migrants continue to face harassment and discrimination across the EU,
despite longstanding EU laws against racism.
Fundamental Rights Report 2019: Efforts to advance equality moved ahead in some areas but remain stalled in others.