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Children, youth and older people
Asylum, migration and borders

How age limits children’s access to rights

Only four EU Member States prohibit the solitary confinement of child detainees even though such detention can harm a child’s health and development. This is just one of the many ways age limits can impact child’s rights, outlined in a new European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights report. It suggests how Member States can remove inconsistencies to better deliver child protection.
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Further support to Italian authorities in migration hotspots

The Agency took part in European Regional Task Force meetings in Catania from 9 to 10 April which were fully dedicated to discussing protecting fundamental rights as part of the work of those involved in managing migratory flows.
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FRA antisemitism survey’s ambassador meet in Brussels

The European Commission’s coordinator on combating antisemitism hosted a workshop for representatives of youth or student organisations in cooperation with the European Union of Jewish Students and the Institute for Jewish Policy Research from 8 to 10 April in Brussels.
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Roma

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Roma

This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and addresses burning fundamental rights themes.
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Roma

Many EU Roma face life like people in the world’s poorer countries

Poor sanitation, hunger, youth unemployment – Roma in the EU face these basic challenges in their daily life, finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest report. It underlines the persistent inequalities that have long plagued Europe’s Roma in many countries of one of the world’s richest regions.
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Roma

Anti-Gypsyism as a barrier to Roma inclusion

Poor sanitation, hunger, youth unemployment – Roma in the EU face these basic challenges in their daily life, finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest Report.
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What are the barriers to Roma inclusion?

In 2011, the EU called on Member States to advance Roma inclusion.
They all had to come up with integration strategies to meet a series of EU-wide goals.
To date, Member States still fall short on most of the targets.
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Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Asylum, migration and borders

IT: rights protection vs rights violations?

IT systems can help trace missing migrant children and combat identity theft. But there are also significant risks to people’s fundamental rights, for instance not being fairly treated within the asylum procedure. So finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in a new report. As authorities increasingly rely on these systems, the report suggests ways to better defend the rights of those affected.
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Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Hate crime

As millions remain exposed to racism, equality bodies must be strengthened, say heads of European human rights institutions on International Anti-Racism Day

Promoting equality and combating racism are essential to fortify social cohesion and democratic security, the heads of three European human rights institutions said in a joint statement on today’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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Asylum, migration and borders

EU IT systems, biometrics and human rights

This infographic illustrates the positive and negative impact on fundamental rights of using large-scale IT systems for security and border management.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Communicating rights

In this third edition of his video blog FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty, focuses on bolstering our human rights communications to underline why human rights matter to us all.
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FRA Director addresses OSCE Human Dimension Committee

The FRA Director reflected on the particular challenges which civil society organisations face during the OSCE Human Dimension Committee on 27 February in Vienna.
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Asylum, migration and borders

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Five migration issues that need urgent action

For the past two years, FRA has been visiting reception centres for migrants across the EU.
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Online human rights tool discussed with UN human rights office

The Agency explored aspects of the online human rights tool it is developing with the UN’s human rights office in Geneva on 16 and 17 January.
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Civil society under threat, Fundamental Rights Agency finds

In many parts of the EU, civil society is under threat, finds a new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Given the vital role civil society plays in upholding democratic processes and in promoting human rights, decision makers need to ensure the important work of civil society is not undermined through policy and legal changes and funding cuts.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Civil society

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Challenges facing civil society in Europe

Civil society is under threat in too many places in Europe.
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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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Data protection, privacy and new technologies

European Parliament discusses FRA surveillance report findings

Mario Oetheimer presented FRA’s second surveillance report to the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee on 21 November in Brussels.
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Data protection
Security
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Press Briefing: Mass surveillance - rights vs security?

This is the recording of the online press briefing about mass surveillance as presented by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on 16 October 2017.
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Hate crime
Equality, non-discrimination and racism

Major EU antisemitism survey planned for 2018

A major new survey investigating discrimination and hate crime against Jews living in the European Union will start in 2018, led by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).