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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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Coalition of hope commits to human rights for all

Calls to action to counter the pressing human rights threats facing Europe were captured during Vienna’s Fundamental Rights Forum 2018. They emerged from the talents, ideas, and expertise shared by over 700 leading experts from around the world during the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights’ event.
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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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Fundamental Rights Forum 2018

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights will hold its next Fundamental Rights Forum in Vienna from 25 to 27 September 2018.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders

Video Blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Fundamental Rights Forum

This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.
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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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Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation

Labour inspections to better protect workers from severe exploitation

Workplace inspections are often lacking or ineffective, enabling unscrupulous employers to exploit their workers, finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest report. Tightening up inspections to combat abuse and empower workers to report abuse are some ways FRA suggests to help end severe labour exploitation.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies

Director’s latest vlog: standing up for human rights

FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty focuses on ways to push back against challenges to our human rights system.
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Hate crime

Better records to help support hate crime victims

Better recording of hate crime across the EU will help Member States continue to fight this persistent problem. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest report provides compelling evidence of what Member States are already doing with tips on how they can improve.
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Freedom of religion, antisemitism and Islamophobia discussed at Council

The FRA Director joined other high-level panellists in discussing freedom of religion, antisemitism and Islamophobia during a joint meeting of the Council’s Working Parties on Human Rights (COHOM) and on Fundamental Rights, Citizens Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP).
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Children, youth and older people

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: Rights-based approach to ageing

In the latest edition of his video blog, FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty focuses on the importance of shifting perceptions towards a rights-based approach to ageing.
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Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Children, youth and older people
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Roma
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
People with disabilities
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Hate crime
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Asylum, migration and borders

The fundamental rights of older people need to be better protected

Nearly 60% of Europeans consider being old a disadvantage when looking for work. Societies often view older people as burdens. Too often we overlook the basic human rights of our older people. This year, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in its 2018 Fundamental Rights Report explores how a rights-based approach towards respect for older people is starting to happen.
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EU CRPD Framework meeting takes place

The EU Framework for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), for which the Agency is the secretariat, and national frameworks held their annual meeting on 28 May in Brussels.
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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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FRA engages with EU Ambassadors to the UN in Geneva

On 8 May, FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty interacted with the EU Ambassadors to the UN in Geneva.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: data protection

This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.
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Focusing on vulnerable groups in asylum procedures

The Agency discussed with Member States and civil society representatives the creation of an EASO network of vulnerability experts.
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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.