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Summaries of the findings from the biggest survey of discrimination and hate crime against Jews ever conducted worldwide are now available in Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Latvian, Maltese, Slovak, Slovenian and Portuguese.
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.
La surpopulation carcérale, les mauvaises conditions sanitaires et le temps limité passé à l’extérieur des cellules sont contraires aux droits des détenus et compromettent leur réinsertion, selon un nouveau rapport de l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne (FRA). Les conclusions et la base de données à l’appui aideront les juges et les avocats à évaluer les lacunes des conditions carcérales lors des décisions concernant des affaires transfrontalières.
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For the first time, a mayor of FRA's host city, Vienna, visited FRA.
Aujourd’hui, nous célébrons la Journée des droits de l’homme, une journée qui commémore l’adoption de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme et ce qu’elle représente pour nous tous. Toutefois, elle mériterait d’être célébrée tous les jours.
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.
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On 11 December, the EU’s Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore will visit FRA.
Il existe un large éventail d’informations sur les droits de l’homme. L’inconvénient, c’est qu’il faut souvent les rechercher dans de nombreux sites web différents. Une grande partie de ces informations concerne l’UE et ses États membres. Désormais, grâce au système d’information européen sur les droits fondamentaux (EFRIS) de la FRA, la solution est à portée de main. L’instrument EFRIS regroupe des informations provenant de ces diverses sources, ce qui constitue un point d’entrée unique, ce qui faisait jusqu’alors hélas défaut.
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.
FRA will present its work on women as victims of partner violence at a conference in Budapest on 9 December.
The agency’s Scientific Committee will meet on 6 December at FRA.
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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.
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The Greek Ombudsman held a conference on the challenges for Greece and Europe in monitoring returns.
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FRA met with the European Commission on 4 December in Brussels to discuss its preliminary LGBTI survey findings ahead of their launch in 2020.
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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.