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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
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Sex, sexual orientation and gender
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Equality, non-discrimination and racism
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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.
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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.