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FRA will join a discussion on 29 November on ethical principles and fundamental rights considerations in data innovation for migration policy.
The FRA Director will attend the annual meeting of Heads of EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies in Warsaw on 22 November.
Michael O’Flaherty
FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty delivers a speech at the Vatican Artificial Intelligence Symposium on the Challenge of AI for Human Society and the Idea of the Human Person. The symposium took place in Rome on 21 October 2021.
Michael O’Flaherty, FRA Director
Opening speech by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty of the annual Human Rights Communicators Network meeting on 28 June 2021. The meeting address how to tackle disinformation and communicating human rights in the digital age.
FRA presented its disability work during the European Parliament’s annual workshop on the rights of people with disabilities.
FRA will take part in an international conference under the Slovenian EU Presidency on empowering people with disabilities to fully participate in society by increasing their mobility and accessibility.
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The FRA Director will attend the annual meeting of Heads of EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies in Warsaw on 22 November.
New languages of the handbook on European non-discrimination law are now available. It is now also in Lithuanian, Portuguese and Slovak.
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From 18 to 19 November, the Roma Working Party will take place online. It will bring together National Roma Contact Points from EU Member States and observer countries.
FRA will give a presentation on the challenges of implementing procedural law from the perspective of safeguards and guarantees during a cybercrime legislation workshop at this year’s Octopus Conference.
FRA will join a panel discussion at the high-level conference on Balancing fundamental rights in data protection on 16 November.
On 16 November, FRA and the European Committee of the Regions’ Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional & External Affairs (CIVEX) will hold their Annual Dialogue on fundamental rights.
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FRA will join the 2021 World Congress on Justice with Children.
FRA’s Director will visit the United Nations in Geneva on 18 November.
Während der gesamten Coronavirus-Pandemie kam es zu hassmotivierten antijüdischen Vorfällen. Obwohl in einigen Ländern die Zahl der antisemitischen Vorfälle zurückgegangen ist, besteht das Hauptproblem in ganz Europa weiterhin darin, dass die meisten Vorfälle nicht gemeldet werden. Jedes Land erhebt Daten auf unterschiedliche Weise, während einige überhaupt keine Daten erheben. Laut dem jüngsten jährlichen Überblick der Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) über antisemitische Vorfälle behindert dies nach wie vor die Bemühungen, den Antisemitismus in Europa wirksam zu bekämpfen.
FRA’s Director will address a high-level conference on public health futures in a changing world on 12 November.
FRA spoke at two online conferences on civil society last week, organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
FRA will present its Human Rights Cities framework to the Finnish Association of Municipalities on 11 November.
FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty will speak about police violence against Roma during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on 9 November.
Effective access to competent legal assistance is a key safeguard to enable people in return proceedings to exercise their rights to an effective remedy and access to justice, finds a new report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). It identifies current practices and issues, and suggests how national authorities could improve effective access to competent legal aid.