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Mid-level officers of the Bulgarian border police took part in three consecutive workshops on fundamental rights. FRA, together with Frontex Fundamental Rights Office (FRO) and the Bulgarian Office of the UN’s Refugee Agency ran the workshops.

On 11 April, FRA Director Sirpa Rautio welcomed the OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media Teresa Ribeiro to FRA. During their discussion, they exchanged views on the challenges that human rights defenders and journalists face today.

Von rassistischen Kommentaren über häufigere Kontrollen bis hin zu Gewalt — so erleben Menschen unterschiedlicher ethnischer Herkunft die Polizeiarbeit in Europa. Da keine länderspezifischen Daten vorliegen, lässt sich das Ausmaß des Problems jedoch kaum vollständig abbilden. Das erschwert die Entwicklung wirksamer Gegenmaßnahmen, wie aus dem ersten EU-weiten Bericht der EU-Agentur für Grundrechte (FRA) über Rassismus in der Polizeiarbeit hervorgeht. Die Agentur ruft die EU-Länder auf, Daten über polizeiliches Fehlverhalten systematisch zu erheben, die Anzeigeerstattung sicherer zu machen, Vorfälle mit Polizeibeteiligung wirksam zu erfassen und die Polizei diverser zu gestalten.

On 20 March, FRA presented its report on online content moderation to the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee. It was part of a debate on progress in implementing the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

FRA presented its work on artificial intelligence and fundamental rights, including findings from its report on Bias in algorithms, at an online CEPOL workshop on AI.

FRA released its practical guidance for Human Rights Cities in 14 additional EU languages. The guidance provides hands-on support and advice to cities and other forms of local authorities wishing to improve their efforts to respect, protect and promote human rights.

On 14 March, FRA introduced its research on the experience of Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) when enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at the European Data Protection Board’s plenary meeting.

FRA joined the 10th plenary meeting of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI).

FRA took part in the European Cancer Organisation’s civil society workshop on social cancer inequalities. FRA presented its work drawing from its LGBTIQ survey.