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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O'Flaherty

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – a living instrument at the national level?

Marking 10 years of the EU's Fundamental Rights Charter, FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty delivered a keynote speech on 'The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – a living instrument at the national level?' on 10 November in Brussels at the joint FRA, European Commission and Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU conference, 'Making the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights a reality for all: 10th anniversary of the Charter becoming legally binding'.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O'Flaherty

How to ensure the resilience of our societies in a changing European landscape

FRA's Director Michael O'Flaherty's keynote speech on the interaction between democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights for the opening session of conference on 10 September in Helsinki organised by the Finnish Presidency of the EU.
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Unlawful profiling
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Michael O’Flaherty

Fundamental rights-based policing

FRA Director, Michael O'Flaherty delivers keynote speech in Paris on 17 October on fundamental rights-based policing during the opening of the 5th IPCAN seminar, ‘Relations of the police and population: challenges and practices’.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O’Flaherty

Communicating rights

Speech delivered by Michael O'Flaherty at Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly side event on communicating rights on 10 April in Strasbourg.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O'Flaherty

Fostering equality in the EU – legislation, policies and practice

The FRA Director delivers a keynote speech on 17 June 2019 during the 'Building the present, designing the future: public policies for a more equal society' seminar organised by the International University Menéndez Pelayo in Santander Spain.
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Michael O'Flaherty

From wrongs to rights - Ending severe labour exploitation - Presentation of the report on Severe labour exploitation in the EU – exploited migrant workers’ perspectives

We shouldn’t be here this morning. It shouldn’t be that 100 years after the Philadelphia Declaration and the founding of the ILO that we should talk about systemic, criminal exploitation of labour. It shouldn’t be that we should talk about it in, of all places, Europe.
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Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Michael O’Flaherty

EuroPride Conference Keynote Speech - Where we are, How we got there and Where we need to go

Those of us who care about human rights, including of LGBTI persons, need to be outraged and cry out in defence of what has been achieved so far. There are those who would dismantle the human rights protection system – what has been called modernity’s greatest achievement. Wake up to that, wake up to the threat, wake up to the risk. As the late Stephane Hessel put it, it is time to ‘Indignez vous’, in French, which means ‘get indignant’. And let’s marshal that indignation into smart campaigns that cannot be ignored.
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Roma
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Michael O’Flaherty

The Role and Status of Women in Modern Society: Between Empowerment, Leadership and Gender Discrimination

FRA Director's speech to a high-level Romanian Presidency conference on the role and status of women in modern society: Between empowerment, leadership and gender discrimination given on 29 May 2019 in Bucharest.
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Michael O'Flaherty

Rediscovering Democracy and the Common Good: The Contribution of Human Rights

Speech by the FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, at the 2019 Sheehy Skeffington School on Social Justice and Human Rights, Dublin, 10 May 2019.
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Support for human rights systems and defenders
Michael O’Flaherty

Media for democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation

Speech during a UN panel debate in Geneva on Media for democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2019.