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7th Fundamental Rights Platform meeting ‘THE FLOOR IS YOURS’ WHAT IDEAS AND PROMISING PRACTICES CAN YOU SHARE FROM CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT IN MAKING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS A REALITY? FRIDAY, 11 APRIL, 10.00 - 13.30 Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center Vienna, 10 - 11 April 2014 7th FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PLATFORM MEETING ‘THE FLOOR IS YOURS’ Vienna, 10-11 April 2014 Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Rights on the move: How can civil society Europe Act Now – when academic Equality bodies contribute to the Pan-European campaign research meets NGOs: Mainstreaming ageing and civil society LGBT people, the Non-violence as a implementation of to ensure access to Freedom of movement in the future priorities organisations – natural religions and human means to enforce actions suggested by protection in Europe for of children having in the area of freedom, allies in promoting rights in Europe fundamental rights the Mediterranean Task Syria’s refugees parents of the same security and justice equality and combating involving civil society Force? legal gender discrimination? 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(Presentation of transposition of EU participation: increasing in your society that Freedom of religion children’s rights in a report on the use law in light of past and Is freedom of education the contribution of civil affect the freedom, under threat future Home Affairs of Structural Funds future EU initiatives in fully understood and society to the political justice and security of policy? to perpetuate the the fi eld of justice and respected in Europe? decision-making women, and what new Observatory on segregation of disabled home affairs policies, process policies and initiatives Intolerance and Platform for people) specifi cally in the area Profesionales por la could help overcome Discrimination against International of procedural rights, Ética Council of Europe / these? Christians Cooperation on 12.30 – 13.30 European Network on and the rights of victims Conference of INGOs Undocumented Migrants Independent Living of crime? Women’s Networking (PICUM) (ENIL) Hub JUSTICIA European Rights Network and ICCL 2 ‘The floor is yours’: What ideas and promising Guidelines: practices can you share from civil society • Content: The aim of these sessions is to share and discuss ideas and promising practices of how civil society is, or can/should be involved in involvement in making fundamental rights a making fundamental rights a reality for everyone. reality? • The choice is yours: Participants may choose their sessions freely. Please bear in mind that the rooms have limited capacity (approximately 20-30 This session is an open space for you, as a participant at the Fundamental seats) – however, if more people want to attend a particular session, there Rights Platform (FRP), to share ideas and promising practices, and to ask is standing room as well. questions that are important to you and discuss them with colleagues from across the EU. 21 organisations (plus partners) responded to the call of hosting • The “law of two feet” applies: If you feel you do not learn in a session or a floor is yours session. There will be three rounds of discussions, lasting one cannot contribute, or you want to listen in to a different session at the same hour each. time, feel free to change rooms even during the discussions. The aim of this session is to develop a ‘catalogue of ideas and existing • Short report from the workshop: The host and one note-taker will be practices’, presenting how civil society is, or could/should be, involved in responsible for summarising the discussions and reporting results and making fundamental rights a reality. further steps. This will become part of the overall meeting report. Notes will be taken during the discussions, which will feed into the final • Foster constructive dialogue: Some presenters or participants may express meeting report. views that differ from yours. You are welcome to disagree and raise your points, but it is an FRP principle that you intervene in a polite, fruitful and constructive manner. We strongly believe in the potential of open and honest but always respectful dialogue. 7th FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PLATFORM MEETING Vienna, 10-11 April 2014 ROOM: PLENARY (EN/FR interpretation provided) SESSION I: HOW CAN CIVIL SOCIETY CONTRIBUTE TO thE IMPLEMENTATION OF thE ActIONS SUggEstED BY thE MEDITERRANEAN TASK FORCE? ABOUT: The workshop will discuss how civil society is contributing/could contribute to the implementation of the five main areas of action listed in 10.00 - 11.00 the European Commission Communication on the work of the Task Force Mediterranean: (1) Actions in cooperation with third countries; (2) Regional protection, resettlement and reinforced legal avenues to Europe; (3) Fight against trafficking, smuggling and organised crime; (4) Reinforced border surveillance contributing to enhancing maritime situational picture and to the protection and saving of lives of migrants in the Mediterranean; (5) Assistance and solidarity with Member States dealing with high migration pressure. All actions will have to be fully compliant with the international human rights standards, including the EU Fundamental Rights Charter, according to the Communication. HOSTS: Giulio Di Blasi, European Commission/DG Home, Adriano Silvestri, Head of Sector Asylum, Migration and Borders and Ann-Charlotte Nygård, Programme Manager, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) The European Commission is the chair of the ‘Task Force Mediterranean’, set up following the Lampedusa tragedy. Also EU Member States and selected EU agencies participate in the Task Force. On 4 December 2013 the Commission issued a Communication on the work of the Task Force, including a list of priority actions. The Commission is invited to present a comprehensive report of the activities carried out at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in June 2014. FRA also participated in the task force. 4 ROOM: 1 ROOM: 2 EQUALITY BODIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS – NATURAL ALLIES LGBT PEOPLE, thE RELIGIONS AND HUMAN RIghts IN EUROPE IN PROMOTING EQUALITY AND COMBATING DIscRIMINATION? ABOUT: Discussions over sexual orientation and gender identity have (re) ABOUT: This workshop will focus on the essential links between national entered the public sphere to a degree that has not been known for some equality bodies (NEBs) and civil society organisations as natural partners in time. Religious leaders and institutions have voiced their positions on these promoting equality and fighting discrimination. topics, although there has hardly been a consensus opinion, even within the The workshop will foster a better understanding of the role and specificities same religious tradition. of national equality bodies as institutions that are part of the public Even still, the debate has sometimes been portrayed as an irreconcilable administration, yet independent both from government and from civil impasse between the LGBT communities on the one side and the religions society. Participants from CSOs will be asked to provide their experiences on the other, as if there were no common ground on which to stand. This and novel ideas on effective and fruitful ways of cooperation with NEBs. has indeed been regrettable. The workshop will also discuss how NEBs can support and empower CSOs A more dialogical approach can be a starting point for meaningful exchange and in what ways CSOs can provide support to NEBs if and when their on these issues. This interactive workshop will examine the international independence or effectiveness is at risk. human rights framework that seeks to protect LGBT people and discuss The workshop will build on the publication: ‘Effective strategies to empower values that are shared with religious traditions that can advance a more civil society’, available at the Equinet website (http://www.equineteurope. human approach for addressing these matters. org/Effective-Strategies-to-Empower). HOSTS: Mark Barwick, Policy Adviser, and Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without HOST: Ilaria Volpe, Policy Officer/Gender Equality, Equinet Frontiers International (HRWF) Equinet is the European network of national equality bodies set up according Founded in 1989, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) International is to the EU anti-discrimination directives (and as such, we are a guest to a non-governmental organisation that focuses on research, analysis and the FRP). Our members are currently 41 statutory equality bodies from 31 monitoring of a wide range of human rights concerns in many countries European countries. throughout the world. Equinet provides a platform for information exchange between equality The organisation is also dedicated to the promotion of democracy and the bodies, we organise capacity building activities such as trainings and rule of law.