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As EU countries continue rolling out new coronavirus contact-tracing apps, the data protection and privacy risks remain high on the agenda. Amid these developments, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) renew their cooperation agreement today to further strengthen data protection across the EU. Both FRA and EDPS argue that respect for fundamental rights, including privacy and data protection, has to be centre stage to make tracing apps, or any other technology, a success.
The OECD held its annual Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct on 17 June.
On 16 June, FRA contributed to an ARIADNE network webinar on the role of cities in promoting and protecting human rights and how philanthropy can help.
FRA moderated a webinar on 19 June on universities and human rights cities. The Global Campus of Human Rights invited representatives from over 20 universities to take part.
On 12 June, FRA participated in the first project board meeting for the Creating system for quantitative data collection to evaluate the situation of Roma in the Czech Society project.
The European Commission invited FRA to provide fundamental rights input to the 26th meeting of the European Migration Network (EMN) Return Expert Group.
Michael O'Flaherty
FRA’s Director addressed a conference on 18 June 2020 on Fighting discrimination on grounds of religion and ethnicity: vulnerabilities of Muslim communities and the effects of COVID-19 crisis. the vulnerabilities of Muslim communities in the EU. The conference was a joint initiative by the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Commission and the European network of Equality bodies, Equinet. Tommaso Chiamparino, European Commission Coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred chaired the event.
Cinq personnes par jour en moyenne ont péri en traversant la Méditerranée pour rejoindre l’Europe en 2019, selon les estimations de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations. Dans la perspective de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne attire l’attention sur les difficultés actuelles auxquelles se heurtent les efforts de sauvetage de la société civile en Méditerranée, qui sont aggravées par la pandémie de COVID-19.
Alors que les gouvernements discutent de l’utilisation de la technologie pour mettre un terme à la diffusion de la COVID-19, de nombreux Européens ne sont pas disposés à partager leurs données avec des organismes publics et privés. Ces conclusions ont été tirées de l’enquête sur les droits fondamentaux réalisée par l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne et menée avant la pandémie.
In his latest vlog Michael O'Flaherty introduces FRA's survey of 35,000 people on attitudes to human and fundamental rights.
On 18 June, the agency’s National Liaison Officers (NLOs) will meet via video conference for the first time.
On 18 June, FRA will host a coordination meeting of working groups under the EU’s High Level Group on combatting racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance.
FRA’s Director will speak during a conference on 18 June on the vulnerabilities of Muslim communities in the EU.
FRA will join the third meeting of the European Commission’s working group on the implementation of the Council declaration on the fight against antisemitism.
FRA is introducing a series of changes to deepen its cooperation with civil society organisations through its Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP).
On 11 June, FRA contributed to a Red Cross Europe webinar on assisting migrants at borders.
FRA presented practical steps on how to effectively protect children at borders during a Save the Children webinar on 9 June.
On 4 and 8 June, FRA presented the findings of its good practices report on relocating unaccompanied children to Greek and Maltese authorities.
On 9 June, FRA’s Management Board elected a new Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson as the mandates of existing members draw to a close.
L’augmentation de l’intolérance et des atteintes aux droits fondamentaux de la population continue d’éroder les progrès considérables accomplis au fil des ans, selon le rapport sur les droits fondamentaux 2020 de la FRA. Alors que l’Europe commence à sortir de la pandémie de COVID-19, nous constatons une aggravation des inégalités existantes et des menaces pour la cohésion de la société.