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Michael O'Flaherty
Many different actors are currently working on strategies, recommendations and guidelines on Artificial Intelligence but as we proceed to navigate this field I would emphasise the extraordinary importance of working together. Within the normative frame of human rights, we have to bring together different stakeholders and different expertise to get it right. Artificial intelligence can serve as a game-changing tool in the combat of corrosive hate speech. Let’s not miss, or worse abuse, this invaluable opportunity. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **
Speech
Michael O'Flaherty
Speech by the FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty to the European Parliament's LIBE Committee, 20 November 2018, as part of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Week marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Michael O'Flaherty focuses on the situation of the Jewish community living in the EU.
Speech
Michael O'Flaherty
Michael O’Flaherty, FRA Director, opening remarks ahead of the presentation of the findings of the agency's second antisemitism survey at a joint European Commission and Austrian EU Presidency event in Brussels on 10 December 2018.
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Antisemitische Hassreden, Belästigung und Angst, als jüdisch erkannt zu werden – mit solchen Vorkommnissen sind Menschen jüdischen Glaubens heute in der EU konfrontiert. Aus einer groß angelegten, wiederholten Befragung von Jüdinnen und Juden, die die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte als weltweit größte Umfrage ihrer Art durchführt, geht hervor, dass sich die Situation zu verschlechtern scheint.
„Wo und mit wem möchte ich leben? Was soll ich wann essen?“ – solche Entscheidungen zählen zu den Realitäten eines unabhängigen Lebens, die die meisten von uns für selbstverständlich halten. Doch für Menschen mit Behinderungen können zwischen Theorie und Praxis Welten liegen, wie die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) in ihrem neuesten Bericht feststellt. Er untersucht, was das Streben von Menschen mit Behinderungen nach einem unabhängigen Leben in der Gemeinschaft fördert, und was es behindert.
FRA's latest report explores what enables and what hinders the drive towards independent community living for people with disabilities.
The EU and all its Member States are legally bound to the UN’s Disability Convention. They have a duty to ensure people with disabilities can live independently in the community rather than in institutions.
Black people in the EU face unacceptable difficulties in simply finding somewhere to live because of their skin colour.
Black people in the EU face unacceptable difficulties in getting a decent job because of their skin colour. Racist harassment also remains all too common.
Menschen mit dunkler Hautfarbe erleben in der EU schon bei der Wohnungssuche oder der Suche nach einem angemessenen Arbeitsplatz nicht hinnehmbare Schwierigkeiten. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer umfangreichen wiederholten Erhebung, die die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) durchgeführt hat. Auch rassistische Belästigungen sind weiterhin an der Tagesordnung.
Michael O'Flaherty talks about empowering people with disabilities to be full and independent members of the community.
Press Release
Es gibt kein Patentrezept für lokale Integration, aber nach dem jüngsten Bericht der Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte können vier zentrale Faktoren die Erfolgschancen erhöhen.
Speech
Michael O'Flaherty
Michael O’Flaherty, FRA Director, speaks to European Affairs Ministers about trust in public institutions during the General Affairs Council's annual rule of law dialogue in Brussels on 12 November 2018.
Michael O’Flaherty
Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Agreement between the EU and Council of Europe on cooperation of the Council of Europe and our Agency. 10 years on from the Agreement, our collaboration has become a fixture in Europe’s human rights landscape. I am grateful to the Council of Europe for its support, and look forward to continuing our work together to ensure that the rights of everyone in the EU and in Europe are defended and respected. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **
This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.
Fast 25 Millionen Kinder in der EU leben in einkommensschwachen Haushalten unter unzumutbaren Lebensbedingungen und mit dem Hunger als ständigem Begleiter. Bildungsdefizite und eine unzureichende gesundheitliche Versorgung bedrohen ihre Grundrechte und verwehren ihnen die Chance, dem Kreislauf der Armut zu entrinnen. Dies stellt die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte in ihrem jüngsten Bericht fest.
Michael O’Flaherty
In our politics, there has been a normalisation of the unacceptable in terms of word and deed. That includes racist and xenophobic words and deeds, which are now as pervasive as they are corrosive to democratic life in the European Union and around the world. Our Agency’s data show worsening conditions across all major areas of our work. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **
Speech
Michael O’Flaherty
The FRA Director delivered a speech to justice ministers from across the EU during the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 11 October in Luxembourg. His speech focused on some of the key challenges for the human rights system in the EU and pointed to possible ways of safeguarding fundamental rights for everybody in the EU. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **