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The guide of preventing unlawful profiling today and in the future explains what profiling is, the legal frameworks that regulate it, and why conducting profiling lawfully is both necessary to comply with fundamental rights and crucial for effective policing and border management.
Michael O’Flaherty
The FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, gave a plenary speech at the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the EU (COSAC) in Helsinki on 2 December, marking 10 years of the EU's Fundamental Rights Charter.
Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions and limited time outside cells in prisons violate detainees’ rights and jeopardise rehabilitation, finds a new Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) report. The findings and supporting database will help judges and lawyers assess shortcomings in prison conditions when deciding on cross-border cases.
For the first time, a mayor of FRA's host city, Vienna, visited FRA.
Today marks human rights day, a day that celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what it means to all of us. But it should be a cause for celebration every day.
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On 11 December, the EU’s Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore will visit FRA.
On 10 December, FRA Director Michael O‘Flaherty will speak at an event organised by the City of Vienna and its Human Rights Office.
At the Human Rights Communicators Workshop, held on 2 and 3 October at FRA, participants suggested to use a common hashtag for international human rights day on 10 December 2019.
There is a vast array of human rights information. The trouble is, you often have to search through so many different places online. Much of it is relevant for the EU and its Member States. Now, help is at hand with FRA’s European Union Fundamental Rights Information System, EFRIS. It draws together information from these various sources, providing a much-needed single entry point.
FRA will present its work on women as victims of partner violence at a conference in Budapest on 9 December.
FRA and the Committee of the Regions’ Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional & External Affairs (CIVEX) will hold their annual dialogue on 9 December in Brussels.
The agency’s Scientific Committee will meet on 6 December at FRA.
The handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child aims to illustrate how European law and case law accommodate the specific interests and needs of children.
The handbook on European non-discrimination law examines law stemming from the complementary systems of the EU non-discrimination directives and the European Convention on Human Rights, drawing on them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where these exist.
The handbook on European data protection law is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of the law.
FRA’s guidance on Applying the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in law and policymaking at national level is now also available in Swedish.
The Greek Ombudsman held a conference on the challenges for Greece and Europe in monitoring returns.
FRA met with the European Commission on 4 December in Brussels to discuss its preliminary LGBTI survey findings ahead of their launch in 2020.
Some 60 experts from EU institutions and civil society gathered at the European Parliament on 2 December to discuss compensation for exploitation and violence against migrant workers.
FRA took part in the annual conference marking European Day of Persons with Disabilities, organised by the European Commission and the European Disability Forum.