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Roma
Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos

European Platform for Roma inclusion - Health and housing inequalities endured by Roma

We can be sad and we can be angry. But we also need to persevere. We need to keep reminding our governments to acknowledge the impact of anti-Gypsyism that undermines their own considerable investment in Roma inclusion. Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos provides welcome remarks at the 12th Platform meeting on 9 October 2018.
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Michael O’Flaherty

Presentation of the Chair’s Statement 2018

Michael O’Flaherty, Chair of the Forum and FRA Director sums up his impressions of FRA's Fundamental Rights Forum 2018 and presents the Chair’s Statement 2018 on 27 September 2018 in Vienna. *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***
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Michael O’Flaherty

Opening words at Fundamental Rights Forum 2018

Michael O’Flaherty, Chair of the Forum and FRA Director gives the opening remarks on the first day of the Agency's Fundamental Rights Forum 2018 in Vienna, 25 September 2018. *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***
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Roma
Children, youth and older people
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Asylum, migration and borders
Michael O'Flaherty

OSCE 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

Today’s threats to human rights know no frontiers. Safeguarding these rights means renewing our commitment to multilateralism and working together to ensure all people can live in dignity and security. FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty gives a keynote speech at the conference in Warsaw, 7 September 2018.
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Michael O'Flaherty

Renewing rights in times of transition: what role for academia?

The FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty provides comments at the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) conference in Edinburgh, 7 September 2018.
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Michael O’Flaherty

Fundamental rights: a road sign at Europe’s crossroad

The FRA Director delivered a keynote speech during the FIDE Congress on 24 May in Estoril on fundamental rights law and how Europe now finds itself at a crossroad. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **
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Asylum, migration and borders
Michael O'Flaherty

Fundamental rights and human rights discussions and counter-terrorism

FRA's Director explained how human rights protection and stronger security go hand-in-hand during an exchange of views with members of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism at their meeting on 8 January in Brussels. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **
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Hate crime
Michael O'Flaherty

Freedom of Expression and the Combat of Hate Speech in Europe

Freedom of expression enables many other fundamental rights but there exists challenges to upholding this right. At a time when support for promoting and protecting of human rights appears to be weakening in some parts of Europe, FRA's Director delivered a speech at a conference on 'Freedom of Expression in the Contemporary World' hosted by the Polish Council of Attorneys at Law in Warsaw on 1 December. ** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY **