FRA’s Director, Sirpa Rautio, will attend the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

During the week of 27 January, FRA’s Director will have various speaking engagements and participate in several events during her visit to Poland.

FRA’s Director will give introductory remarks at the international conference on ‘Denial, distortion and disinformation: the truth about the Holocaust 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz’.

On 30 January, FRA will host an expert meeting on mainstreaming human rights into programme and project lifecycles, from initiation and planning to executing and closing as well as monitoring and control.

On 31 January, there will be a study visit to FRA from the Council of Europe’s new Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights, Gudrun Mosler-Törnström.

FRA will present its work on 8 April on assessing fundamental rights risks of artificial intelligence at ERA’s 2025 Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence Systems and Fundamental Rights.