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On 25 February, the Advisory Board of the Independent Border Monitoring Mechanism of Croatia met in Zagreb. They discussed the monitoring mechanism’s latest report covering activities in 2023 and early 2024 and monitoring plans for 2025.
FRA’s Executive Board meeting took place online on 4 March. The Board was updated on most recent FRA’s work.
FRA and EIGE will give a presentation on the EU Gender-Based Violence survey results to the Luxembourg Ministry of Gender Equality and Diversity. The coordination committee that deals with measures to combat violence against women and domestic violence will also attend.
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Eurostat working group on crime and criminal justice statistics will meet to discuss their data needs. They will collect input from various other European Commission Directorates-General.
Members of the Roma survey Technical Working Group for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia as well as survey implementing agencies will meet online on 5 March. . The members are the UN Development Programme, the World Bank and FRA.
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The European Commission and the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union will host a High-Level Forum on the Future of EU Criminal Justice.
FRA invites views from all civic society organisations working in an EU Member State or in Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia or at the EU level for its annual civic space consultation.
On 5 February, FRA took part in a seminar in Helsinki organised by the Council of Europe and the Finnish Non-discrimination Ombudsman. The event was part of a EU-Council of Europe funded technical support project on upholding equality and non-discrimination by equality bodies regarding the use of artificial intelligence in public administrations.
FRA and the UN Refugee Agency chaired the Frontex Consultative Forum meeting last week from 18 to 19 February in Warsaw.
FRA will present the programme and activities for the EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies network that the Agency chairs this year.
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FRA will present its work on the conditions of criminal detention during the Legal Experts Advisory Panel Annual Conference.
Sirpa Rautio
FRA’s Director Sirpa Rautio's keynote speech at Europol’s conference “Fundamental rights at the heart of policing”. The conference, organised by Europol’s Fundamental Rights Officer, took place on 20 February 2025 at the Europol HQ in The Hague.
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The European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) is organising training for the members of the judiciary on the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is honoured to chair the EU Justice & Home Affairs Agencies Network (JHAAN) this year. Together, the JHAAN Agencies work tirelessly on promoting rights, freedom, security and justice across the EU.
FRA’s Director will address the OSCE's annual conference on addressing antisemitism. The OSCE Chairpersonship of Finland in consultation with OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) organised the event.
FRA held an information session for National Liaison Officers on the Agency’s draft Single Programming Document. The presentation included information on the Agency’s programming and planning process.
FRA provided fundamental rights input during a roundtable discussion on the forthcoming revision of EU legislation on returns. FRA drew from its 2019 legal opinion.
FRA highlighted key findings from its work related to fundamental rights impact assessments under the EU AI Act during a workshop in Berlin.
The EU’s plans to set up centres in non-EU countries (so-called ‘return hubs’) must respect fundamental rights law, warns a new Position Paper from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The paper sets out the safeguards that need addressing under EU law before establishing such hubs. These include compliance with fundamental rights, securing legally binding agreements to protect people’s rights, and setting up independent human rights monitoring systems.
On 5 February, FRA experts will exchange views with Human Dimension experts from the EU Delegation to International Organisations in Vienna and EU Member States Permanent Representations to the OSCE.