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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FORUM 2016

Rights, Respect, Reality:

the Europe of Values in Today’s World

20-23 JUNE 2016, VIENNA

CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT

FINAL PROGRAMME

INCLUSION REFUGEE PROTECTION

THE DIGITAL AGE

Final Programme 2

GLOSSARY

CONNECT. REFLECT.ACT.TALK: speakers are given a limited amount of time to present

their ideas in innovative and engaging ways.

AUDIENCE POLLING: live polling on specific questions amongst participants via an app

Sli.do.

MARKET PLACE OF IDEAS: diverse organisations present their ideas and work at

information stands. It takes place during the entire Forum.

SCHOOL COMPETITION ‘Human rights in the city’: jointly organised by the office of

the Commissioner for Human Rights of the City of Vienna, the Vienna School Authority and

FRA. Vienna school students, aged 6-19, were invited to submit artwork related to the

themes of the FRF.

FRF HACKATHON: the Hackathon aims to find practical solutions to raising awareness of

fundamental rights in the EU, using digital technology and the expertise of FRF participants.

The chosen proposal will be presented on Day 3 of the Forum.

WORKING GROUP: The working groups at the Fundamental Rights Forum 2016 serve the

purpose to discuss specific topics in more detail, within the umbrella of the three FRF

themes: inclusion, refugee protection, the digital age. Each day will focus on a different

cluster: innovation for fundamental rights; rights-based governance; empowering rights

holders; fundamental rights compliant sustainable growth. Participants at the FRF will be

able to choose which workshops to attend, depending on their expertise and interest

availability.

SIDE EVENT: Side event of the Forum serves the purpose to provide additional, FRF

related opportunity for discussion, to different audience than FRF audience. The side

events are organised by FRF partners or those associated with FRF. Information on side

event is included in FRF programme and on FRF web site.

CHAIR’S STATEMENT: Chief output of the Fundamental Rights Forum, which will focus

on the key findings of the discussions and suggest follow up that could be made by different

stakeholder groups: EU member states, EU institutions, National Human Rights Institutions

and Equality Bodies, international human rights organisations, businesses and

entrepreneurs, and civil society. These are steps that need to be taken in order to improve

respect for fundamental rights in the areas of refugee protection, inclusion and the digital

age over the three years until the next FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FORUM.

https://www.sli.do/home

DAY 1 - MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016

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INNOVATION FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS:

INCLUSION, REFUGEE PROTECTION, THE DIGITAL AGE

09.00 – 17.00 FRF HACKATHON

Organised by the Dutch Embassy in Vienna, FRA and Impact Hub

Vienna, FRA premises

The main goal is to find practical solutions to raising awareness of

fundamental rights in the EU, using digital technology and the

expertise of FRF participants. The chosen proposal will be presented

on Day 3 of the Forum.

15.00 – 17.10 WORKING GROUP: Kultur der Menschenrechte jetzt: Perspektiven in und für die Menschenrechtsstadt Wien (German only) Vienna city hall

Moderators:

Manfred Nowak, Vice-Chairperson of the FRA Management

Board;

Beate Winkler, Author, Painter,

Speakers:

Professor Anna Badora, Artistic Director, Volkstheater,

Wien

Dr Matti Bunzl , Director, Wien Museum

Matthias Naske, Artistic Director, Wiener Konzerthaus

Doz. Mag. Alf Netek, MA , CMO (Chief Marketing Officer),

Kapsch AG

Ula Schneider, Artistic Director, SOHO in Ottakring

16.00 – 17.10 WORKING GROUP: Meeting of Human Rights Cities

Vienna City Hall

DAY 1 - MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016

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OPENING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FORUM 2016

17.30 –19:00 OPENING OF THE FORUM

Vienna City Hall

Introduction and moderation: Michael O’Flaherty,

Director of the Fundamental Rights Agency and Chair of the

Fundamental Rights Forum

Speakers:

Frauke Lisa Seidensticker, Chairperson of the

Management Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency

Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Executive City Councillor

for Cultural Affairs, Science and Sports of the City of Vienna,

Co-host of the Fundamental Rights Forum

H.E. Dr Heinz Fischer, President of the Republic of Austria

and Patron of the Fundamental Rights Forum

Keynote Address:

Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European

Commission

19:00 onwards RECEPTION

Vienna City Hall

DAY 2 - TUESDAY, 21 JUNE 2016

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RIGHTS BASED GOVERNANCE:


Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center

Messeplatz 1 PF 277

1021 Vienna

08:00 - 08:45 Registration of participants

09.00 – 09.15 WELCOME: Friso Roscam Abbing, Head of FRA’s Fundamental

Rights Promotion Department and general moderator at the

Fundamental Rights Forum.

OPENING REMARKS:

Michael O'Flaherty, FRA Director and Chair of the Forum

Moderators:

Farid Tabarki, Trend watcher

Shirin Wheeler, Principal Advisor International Press,

European Investment Bank, former BBC journalist

09.15 – 10.15 PANEL DEBATE ON RIGHTS BASED GOVERNANCE

Speakers:

Wolfgang Brandstetter, Minister of Justice, Austria (video

message)

Ulrike Lunacek, Vice-President, European Parliament

Valeriu Nicolae, Secretary of State, Ministry of Labour and

Social Protection, Romania

Yuri Fedotov, Director-General of the United Nations Office in

Vienna (UNOV) and Executive Director of the United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Alexander Stępkowski, Deputy Minister, Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, Poland

10:15 - 10:30 CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALK:

Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a model

for inclusion by Helga Stevens, Member of the European

Parliament


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10.30 – 11.30 PANEL DEBATE ON FORWARD LOOKING INCLUSIVE EUROPE

Speakers:

Cécile Kashetu Kyenge, Member, European Parliament

Barna Berke, State Secretary for European and

International Judicial Cooperation, Hungary

Per Olsson Fridh, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture,

Sweden

Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human

Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Michael Georg Link, Director of the Office for Democratic

Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE

11:30 - 11:45 CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALK:

Fixing the Refugee System by James C. Hathaway, Professor of

law, University of Michigan

11.45 – 12.15 BREAK

MARKET PLACE OF IDEAS

12.15 – 13.15 WORKING GROUPS

INCLUSION

WG 1: Inclusion and fundamental rights: addressing gaps in

equality law and in its implementation

Soraya Post, Member of the European Parliament

Paul d'Auchamp, Deputy Regional Representative for

Europe, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for

Human Rights

Sarah-Jane King, Deputy Head of Unit Equality legislation

Directorate General Justice and Consumers, European

Commission

Tamás Kádár, Head of Legal and Policy Team, EQUINET

Marina Roncoroni, Commissioner for Integration and

Migration for the Berlin District Administration Steglitz-

Zehlendorf, German

Henri Nickels, Head of Sector Equality, FRA

WG 2: Political and societal participation in the EU: young

people, LGBTI persons, people with ethnic minority or

migrant background and people with disabilities

Jozsef Nagy, Member of the European Parliament

Helene Jarmer, Member of Parliament, Austria

Evelyn Paradis, Executive Director of ILGA Europe


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Amel Yacef, ENAR board member, Chair of Migrant women

and youth networks, Ireland

Marie Hélène Boulanger, Head of Unit Citizenship rights

and free movement, Directorate General Justice and

Consumers, European Commission

David Friggieri, European Commission Coordinator on

combating anti-Muslim hatred

Miltos Pavlou, Senior Programme Manager, FRA.

WG 3: Assessing the progress in social inclusion from a

fundamental rights perspective: are we on the right track?

Cornelia Ernst, Member of the European Parliament

Livia Jaroka, Roma activist and former Member of the

European Parliament

Juul Van Hoof, Senior Advisor, Rainbow cities network

Network

Pia Oberoi, Advisor on Migration and Human Rights, Office

of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Salla Saastamoinen, Director of Equality, Directorate

General Justice and Consumers, European Commission

John Hammock , Co-founder, Oxford Poverty & Human

Development Initiative

Isabella Meier, research officer, ETC Graz, Graz University

Andrey Ivanov, Head of Sector Roma and Migrant

Integration, FRA

REFUGEE PROTECTION

WG 10: Human rights at the heart of the EU asylum policy

framework

Chair:

Manfred Nowak, Professor of International Law and Human

Rights, University of Vienna and vice-chair of FRA’s

Management Board

Speakers:

Angelika Mlinar, Member of the European

Parliament

Timothy Kirkhope, Member of European Parliament, (video

message)

Michael O’Flaherty, FRA Director and Chair of the Forum


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Maria Stavropoulou, Director, Greek Asylum Service

Tomáš Boček, Special Representative on Migration, Council

of Europe

Catherine Woollard, Secretary General, European Council

on Refugees and Exiles

James C. Hathaway, Professor of law, University of

Michigan

WG 11: Protecting children on the move

Chair:

Margaret Tuite, Coordinator on the rights of the child,

Directorate General Justice, European Commission

Speakers:

Marc Dullaert, Director, Kids Rights Foundation

Noala Skinner, Director, UNICEF Brussels

Helmut Sax, member of the Council of Europe Group of

Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human

Beings(GRETA)

George Moschos, Deputy Ombudsman for Children’s Rights

in Greece, Member of the Bureau of ENOC

Hans Karlsson, Head of the Health and Social Care Division,

Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

Stefania Pizzolla, Child rights unit coordinator, National

Authority for Children and Adolescents

Miriam Lewek, Child rights expert, Federal Association for

Unaccompanied Minor Refugees

Georgia Dimitropoulou, Child rights expert, FRA

WG 12: Legal entry channels for people in need of

international protection

Chair:

Iliana Savova, Director, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Speakers:

Roberta Metsola, Member of the European Parliament

(video message)

Judith Sargentini, Member of the European Parliament

Dr Rabee Alferai, Syrian refugee living in Austria

http://skl.se/tjanster/englishpages.411.html


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Laura Cristina Gornicioiu , Legal Officer, Legal Affairs unit,

Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European

Commission

Corinne Wicher, Head of International tasks and

Administration of EU Funds, Federal Office for Migration and

Refugees, Germany

Vincent Cochetel, Director of Bureau for Europe, UNHCR

Sara Sighinolfi, European Institutions Officer, FRA

DIGITAL AGE

WG 19: The right to freedom of expression and the right to

privacy in the context of increased security concerns in

Europe: Challenges and promising practices

Chair:

Barbora Bukovská, Legal Director, Article 19

Speakers:

Joseph Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to

privacy, OHCHR

Dunja Mijatović, Representative on Freedom of the Media,

OSCE

Joanna Cavan, Head, Interception of Communications

Commissioner’s Office (IOCCO)

Katharine Sarikakis, Head Media Governance and

Industries Research Lab, University of Vienna

Mario Oetheimer, Head of Sector Information Society,

Privacy and Data Protection, FRA

WG 20: Effective human rights protection online: from an

internet bills of rights to more detailed legislation and better

enforcement

Laura Ferrara, Member, European Parliament

Leon van de Ven, policy officer, Ministry of interior and

Kingdom relations, the Netherlands

Lee Hibbard, Internet Governance Coordinator, Council of

Europe

Ben Wagner, Director, Centre for Internet & Human Rights

at European University, Viadrina

Jonas Grimheden, Senior Policy Manager, FRA


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WG 21: Protecting and promoting privacy in our data-driven

societies

Chair:

Peter Hustinx, former European Data Protection Supervisor

Speakers:

Marju Lauristin, Member, European Parliament

Giuseppe Busia, Secretary General, Italian Data Protection

Authority

Bojana Bellamy, President of the Centre for Information

Policy Leadership, Hunton & Williams

Sarah Spiekermann, Institute for Management Information

Systems, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Thomas Zerdick, Deputy Head of Unit, Personal Data

Protection Unit, Directorate General Justice, and Consumers,

European Commission

Zoe Kardasiadou, Data Protection expert, FRA

13.15 – 14.30 LUNCH


14.30 – 16.00 WORKING GROUPS - CONTINUATION OF MORNING SESSION

16.00 – 16.30 BREAK


16.30 – 17.00 CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALKS:

Role of human rights in times of crisis by Morten Kjaerum,

Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and

Humanitarian Law

Empathy as a prerequisite for inclusion by Stefan Hertmans,

Belgian author

17.00 – 18.00 PLENARY - WRAP UP and DEBATE:

Corinna Wicher, Head of International tasks and

Administration of EU Funds in the Federal Office for Migration

and Refugees, Germany Paul Nemitz, Director of Fundamental Rights and

Citizenship,Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European

Commission

Anastasia Crickley, Chair of the Committee on Elimination of

Racial Discrimination, United Nations


Final Programme 11

Vincent Cochetel, Director Europe, Office of the United

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Evelyne Paradis, Executive Director of ILGA Europe

Reporting back from three workshops (1 per theme)

19:15 – 22:00 Panel Conversation, Film Screening and Reception

FULLY BOOKED

Organised by FRA and Filmladen.

Website: weltkino.de/film/kino/seefeuer

Facebook: facebook.com/Seefeuer.DerFilm

Pressmaterial: filmladen.at/presse

This is the Austrian premiere of FUOCOAMMARE, "Fire at Sea", a film

by Gianfranco Rosi, which won the Golden Bear prize for the best

film at the Berlinale International Film Festival 2016.

The screening will be introduced by a conversation between the

film’s director Gianfranco Rosi, and Professor Manfred Nowak, a co-

organiser and member of the Jury of the international human rights

film festival “This human world”.

19:00 - 20:30 Antisemitismus in Europa: Wie kann man diesem effektiv

entgegentreten? (in German language)

FULLY BOOKED

Organised by the Europa Club Wien - Austrian Society for European

Politics, Jewish Museum Vienna and the European Commission

Representation in Austria.

Jewish Museum, Dorotheergasse 11, 1010 Vienna.

Welcome:

Danielle Spera, Director of Jewish Museum Vienna

Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, Head of Department Equality

and Citizens Rights, FRA

Panel discussion with:

Berivan Aslan, Member of the Austrian Parliament, Die

Grünen

Serge Falck, Actor and writer

Jasmin Freyer, Board of Directors of the Jewish Community

Vienna

http://www.thishumanworld.com/?Lg=EN


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Paul Nemitz, Director of Fundamental Rights and

Citizenship, DG Directorate-General for Justice and

Consumers, European Commission

Ben Segenreich, ORF correspondent in Israel

Moderator:

Erich Nuler, Editor, Daily "Heute"

19:00 - 22:30 FRF RECEPTION

Organised with support by the Austrian government.

Location: magdas HOTEL,

Laufbergergasse 12, 1020 Vienna, Austria.

DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2016

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EMPOWERING RIGHTS HOLDERS:



Messeplatz 1 PF 277

1021 Vienna


09.00 – 09.30 OPENING REMARKS:

WELCOME: Friso Roscam Abbing, Head of FRA’s Fundamental



OPENING REMARKS:


OPENING SPEECH:

Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe


The role of cities and mayors in empowering rights holders by

Benjamin Barber, political theorist and Founder of the Global

Parliament for Mayors Project;

Protecting human rights defenders at risk by Mary Lawlor,

Founder and Director of Frontline defenders.

10.00 – 11.00 PANEL DEBATE ON EMPOWERING RIGHTS HOLDERS

Moderators:


Shirin Wheeler, Principal Advisor International Press,

European Investment Bank, former BBC journalist

Speakers:

David Stanton, Minister of State for Justice with special

responsibility for Equality, Immigration, and Integration,

Ireland


Final Programme 14

Astrid Thors, High Commissioner on National Minorities,

OSCE

James Cavallaro, President, Inter-American Commission on

Human Rights

Farah Abdi, Somali refugee, blogger, author and refugee

rights activist

Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St

Benet's Hall, University of Oxford

Gianfranco Rosi, Film maker of ‘Fire at the Sea’, winner of

the 2016 Golden Bear, Berlinale film festival

11.00 – 11.30 BREAK



INCLUSION

WG 4: Social inclusion in the context of the Europe 2020

strategy: what is missing?

Beate Winkler, Author, Painter

Therese Murphy, Head of Operations, European Institute

for Gender Equality (EIGE)

Jana Hainsworth, President, Social Platform – The Platform

for European Social NGOs

Yekaterina Chzhen, Social Policy and economic specialist,

UNICEF Innocenti Research Center

Evelyn Collins, Chair, Equinet

Paul Lindquist, member, Committee of the Region

Henri Nickels, Head of Sector Equality, FRA

WG 5: The role of education in promoting social inclusion:

what works?

Julie Ward, Member of the European Parliament (video

message)

Gérard Alard, Chief of Education adjoint, Ministry of

Education and school buildings, Government of the

Federation Wallonia-Brussels

Szilvia Kalman, policy officer, Directorate-General

Education and Culture, European Commission

Kirsi Pimiä, Non-discrimination Ombudsman, Finland

Judy Korn, Founder and Director of the Violence Prevention

Network, Germany

Lenka Felcmanova, Vice-Chair of the Czech Society for

Inclusive Education, Open Society Foundation Prague


Final Programme 15

Elin Lilijenbladh, Board Member, International Lesbian,

Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Youth & Student

Organisation (IGLYO)

Astrid Podsiadlowski, Head of Sector Rights of the Child;

Eva Sobotka, Programme Manager- Fundamental Rights

Forum, FRA

WG 6: Empowering rights holders: the contribution of

professional groups in improving rights fulfilment

Joseph Moyerson, International Association of Youth and

Family Judges and Magistrates (AIMJF)

Beth Greenhill, Senior clinical teacher, University of

Liverpool

Polli Hagenaars, Convener, European Federation of

Psychologists’ Associations

Josef Hosp, Chair, Gay Cops Austria - Austrian Police

Association

Sylvia Lancaster, Founder, Sophie Lancaster Foundation;

Massimo Toschi, Programme Manager, FRA;

Sheena Keller, Research Officer, FRA

REFUGEE PROTECTION

WG 13: Local communities and migration hotspots: Taking a

fundamental rights perspective

Pedro Calado, High Commissioner for Migration, Portugal

Katerina Eustathiou-Selaha, Agkalia NGO from Lesbos,

awarded the 2016 the Council of Europe’s Raoul Wallenberg

Prize for the help provided to migrants

Lora Vidovic, Ombudsman, Croatia

Aydan Iyiguengoer, Head of Sector Awareness Raising,

FRA

WG 14: Integration of migrants and, in particular, of

refugees: the role of local authorities and business; learning

from civil society.

Chair:

Hans Janssen, Mayor of Oisterwijk, the Netherlands,

Member of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance,

Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX), Committee of the

Regions

Speakers:

Birgit Sippel, Member of the European Parliament


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Anny Knapp, Project Manager ‘connecting people’

Asylkoordination Austria

Irena, Guidikova, Head of Division, Intercultural cities

programme manager, World Forum for Democracy, Council

of Europe

Marina Roncoroni, Commissioner for Integration and

Migration for the Berlin District Administration Steglitz-

Zehlendorf, Germany

Rossalina Latcheva, Senior Programme Manager, FRA

DIGITAL AGE

WG 22: Freedom of expression, hate speech and anonymity

online

Joseph Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to

privacy, OHCHR

Geoffrey Shannon, Special rapporteur on child protection,

Ireland

Maciej Tomaszewski, Policy Officer, Directorate-General

Justice and Consumers, European Commission

Robin Sclafani, Director, Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive

Europe

Barbara Trionfi, Executive Director, International Press

Institute

Rui Gomes, Representative of NO HATE SPEECH CAMPAIGN,

Council of Europe

Carolina Lasén Diaz, Head of the Gender Equality Unit,

Council of Europe

Albin Dearing, Programme Manager Research – Criminal

Law and Justice, FRA

WG 23: E-government: Human rights challenges and

opportunities

Reinier van Zutphen, National Ombudsman, The

Netherlands

Peter Kustor, Head of department, E-Government – Legal,

Organisational and International Issue, Federal Chancellory,

Austria

Aikaterini Dimitrakopoulou, Policy officer, Citizenship

Rights and Free Movement Unit, Directorate-General Justice

and Consumers, European Commission

Heini Huotarinen, Head of the Unit for Democracy,

Language Affairs and Fundamental Rights, Ministry of

Justice, Finland;

Vida Beresneviciute, Programme Manager, FRA


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WG 24: E-health: improving rights fulfilment through

innovation

Heidrun Mollenkopf, Vice President, AGE platform Europe

Laurène Souchet, Secretary General, European Patient

Forum

Francisco Sanchez Laguna, Head, Information Systems

Coordination Department, Andalusian Health Service

Claudia Prettner, Policy Officer, Unit for Health and Well-

Being, Directorate General Communications Networks,

Content and Technology, European Commission

Alexis Normand, Healthcare Development Director,

Organisation: Withings

Ludovica Banfi, Programme Manager, FRA

Elise Lassus, Research and Administrative Assistant, FRA

OUTSIDE THEMATIC STREAM

WG 15 HRA: Human Rights Ambassadors forum – envoys of

change and hope

Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of

Europe

Kees van Baar, Human Rights Ambassador, Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

Agnes Hevesi, Ambassador for Human Rights, Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Gustaf Lind, the Human Rights Ambassador, Sweden

Rauno Merisaari, Ambassador for Human Rights and

Democracy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

Petter F. Wille, former Human Rights Ambassador, Norway

James Cavallaro, President, Inter-American Commission on

Human Rights

Jan Wouters, Professor of International Law and

International Organisations, Leuven University

John Kellock, Senior Policy Advisor to the Director, FRA

WG 26: Human Rights in film - FRF human rights school

competition - human rights in the city

Ursula Wolschlager, Film Producer

Anne Laurent-Delage, International Relations officer,

Austrian Film Commission

Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner, City of Vienna

Nathalie Borgers, Film director

Arash T. Riahi, Film director

Hilde Dalik, Actress


Final Programme 18

Students and teachers from Fundamental Rights Forum

2016 human rights school competition

Eva Sobotka, Programme Manager- Fundamental Rights

Forum, FRA

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH


14.00 – 15.30 WORKING GROUPS - CONTINUATION OF MORNING SESSION

15.30 – 16.00 BREAK



Defending rights and freedoms in the digital environment by

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, President of Panoptykon Foundation and

Vice-President of European Digital Rights;

Connecting citizens to power by Alberto Alemanno, Professor,

NYU School of Law, co-founder The Good Lobby

16:30-17:00 Presentation of winning clip from the connect.reflect.act human

rights school competition “Human rights in the city” and award

ceremony.

Presentation of FRF Hackathon digital tool proposals for raising

awareness for fundamental rights.

17.00 – 18.00 PLENARY - WRAP UP and DEBATE:


Wojciech Wiewiorowski, Assistant European Data

Protection Supervisor;

Lora Vidovic, Ombudsman, Croatia

Salla Saastamoinen, representing Věra Jourová, EU

Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality

Max Schrems, privacy activist;

Jan Wouters, Professor of International Law and

International Organisations, Leuven University

Fiyaz Mughal, Founder and Director of Faith Matters


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18.00 – 21.00 The launch of the Handbook on European law relating to

access to justice

FULLY BOOKED

MESSE WIEN, CLUB area 1st floor

The Handbook on European law relating to access to justice has

been jointly prepared by FRA, the Council of Europe and the

Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. It seeks to raise

awareness and improve knowledge of relevant legal standards in

the area of access to justice set by the EU and the Council of

Europe, particularly through the case law of the Court of Justice of

the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. It has been

designed as a practical guide for judges, prosecutors and legal

practitioners involved in litigation in EU and Council of Europe

Member States. Non-governmental organisations and other bodies

that assist individuals in accessing justice will also find this

handbook useful.

Welcome:

Michael O’Flaherty, Director of the Fundamental Rights

Agency and Chair of the Fundamental Rights Forum

Speakers:

Maria Berger, Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union

(video message)

Robert Spano, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

David Harris, Professor, University of Nottingham

Debbie Sayers, Legal research consultant, Interalia.org.uk


Final Programme 20

19:00 - 21:00 Alpbach Talks on "Empowering rights holders"

FULLY BOOKED

Organised, in cooperation with Wiener Zeitung, European Forum

Alpbach and FRA at the occasion of the Fundamental Rights Forum

Leopold Museum, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

What tools are needed to facilitate citizen involvement in the digital

age? How can we at the same time best protect the right to privacy

and govern the internet? Two experts in the fields of civic advocacy

and data protection will answer these and other questions at a

special edition of the Alpbach Talks series during the first

Fundamental Rights Forum in Vienna.

Welcome:

Caspar Einem, Vice President, European Forum Alpbach;

President, oiip - Austrian Institute for International Affairs,

Vienna

Wolfgang Riedler, Managing Director, Wiener Zeitung,

Vienna

Moderator:

Alma Zadic, Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP,

Vienna; Member, Forum Alpbach Network, Vienna (Chair)

Introduction by:

Constantinos Manolopoulos, Deputy Director (FRA)

Speakers:

Alberto Alemanno, Professor, NYU School of Law, co-

founder The Good Lobby

Joseph Cannataci, Professor, UN Special Rapporteur on the

Right to privacy

http://www.fundamentalrightsforum.eu/

DAY 4 - THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2016

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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS COMPLIANT SUSTAINABLE GROWTH:



Messeplatz 1 PF 277

1021 Vienna


09.00 – 09.15 WELCOME: Friso Roscam Abbing, Head of FRA’s Fundamental



OPENING REMARKS:

Speakers:


Hauwa Ibrahim, Nigerian human rights lawyer, winner of

2005 European Parliament's Sakharov Prize

Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland (video

message)


Role of business in addressing inequality by Steve Howard, Chief

Sustainability Officer, IKEA

Connecting street vendors to global consumers by Christine

Souffrant, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vendedy

09.45 – 11.00 PANEL DEBATE ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS COMPLIANT

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Moderators:


Friso Roscam Abbing, Head of FRA’s Fundamental Rights

Promotion Department and general moderator at the


Speakers:

Michael Spindelegger, Director General, International

Centre for Migration Policy Development


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Wolfgang Greif, Vice-president, European Economic and

Social Committee

Marie Ringler, Europe Co-Leader, Ashoka Foundation

Shalini Randeria, Rector of the Institute for Human

Sciences

11:00 – 11:10 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Emily O'Reilly, European Ombudsman (livestream)

11.10 – 11.45 BREAK



INCLUSION

WG 7: What can progressive realisation of economic, social

and cultural rights mean in the EU, in the context of the

European Pillar of Social Rights initiative?

Chair:

Manfred Nowak, Professor of International Law and Human

Rights, University of Vienna and vice-chair pf FRA’s

Management Board

Speakers:

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, University of York,

Authors of ‘The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies

Almost Always Do Better?’

Wilfried Altzinger, Professor, University of Economics and

Business, Vienna

Allan Päll, President, Social Platform and Secretary General

of the European Youth Forum

Luisa Cabral , Head of Unit, Social security coordination,

European Commission

Regis Brillat, Head of the European Social Charter

Department and Executive secretary of the European

Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)

Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, Head of Department, FRA

WG 8: The crucial role of employers in combating severe

forms of labour exploitation

Danielle Auroi, Chair of EU Affairs Committee, French

National Assembly


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Frances House, Deputy Executive Director, Institute for

Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

Zuzanna Muskat Gorska, Legal Unit, International Trade

Union Confederation

Andrea Fromm, Research Officer, European Foundation for

the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

(EUROFOUND)

Teresa Albano, Economic Affairs Officer, Office of the Co-

coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities.

Alice Hamilton, Research Officer, FRA

WG 9: How can business contribute to more socially cohesive

societies in the EU?

Speakers:

Laszlo Lovaszy, Expert, United Nations Committee on the

Rights of Persons with Disability;

Juan Gonzalez Mellizo, Team leader, Unit, Non-

discrimination policies and Roma coordination, Directorate-

General Justice and Consumers, European Commission

Lene Wendland, UN advisor on Business and Human

Rights, OHCHR

Radu Mares, Expert, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human

Rights

Monika Laurinaviciute, Stakeholder relations officer,

European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

Sari Brody, Global Diversity & Inclusion leader, IKEA Jonas Grimheden, Senior Policy Officer, FRA

WG 28: The common space between religious traditions and

human rights

H.E. Mgr Theodorus Cornelis Maria Hoogenboom,

Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht, Commission of the Bishops’

Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)

Chief Rabbi David Rosen, Member of the Board of

Directors, KAICIID; International Director of Interreligious

Affairs, American Jewish Committee

Alpesh Patel, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Aicha Haddou, Vice President, European Muslim Research

on Islamic Development

Niraj Nathwani, Programme Manager, FRA


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REFUGEE PROTECTION

WG 16: The business case for better migrant integration that

can contribute to Europe’s growth

Gabriela Sonnleitner, CEO Magdas Social Business,

Magdas Hotel

Emily Farchy, Senior Migration Specialist, International

Migration Division, OECD

Joana Adesuwa-Reiterer, Founder and Chair of the NGO

‘Exit’, JOADRE;

Sari Salojärvi, Manager of an integration programme for

educated asylum seekers, Hanken University (Business

University) in cooperation with businesses

David Reichel, Programme Manager, FRA

WG 17: How can digital tools enhance asylum and refugee

protection?

Chair:

Rosemary Byrne, Associate Professor of International Law,

Trinity College Dublin, former Chair, Scientific Committee

FRA

Speakers:

Hadi Khatib, Programme Coordinator, Tactical Technology

Collective

Christophe Hessels, Senior Programme Manager, European

Asylum Support Office (EASO)

Verena Knaus, Senior Policy Advisor, UNICEF Brussels

Colin Yeo, Editor and Founder, Free Movement blog

Katinka Ridderbos, Senior Research and Information

Officer UNHCR

Günter Schumacher, Principle Researcher, Joint Research

Centre

Ann-Charlotte Nygard, Programme Manager, FRA

WG 18: Empowering cities in the fight against human

trafficking: victims of trafficking as rights holders

Helga Konrad, Coordinator of the Regional Implementation

Initiative, Austria

Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, Ambassador Director General

for Legal and Consular Affairs at the Federal Ministry for

Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austrian Coordinator

on Combatting Human Trafficking


Final Programme 25

Vineta Polatside, Senior Adviser at the Council of the Baltic

Sea States Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings

Daniela Urschitz, Director, EU Strategy for the Danube

Region: Cooperation for Cities on the Urban Platform Danube

Region

Dagmar Engels, Head of the Ulm School of Adult Education

and Town Councillor, City of Ulm

Alina Braşoveanu, member of the Council of Europe Group

of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

(GRETA)

Georgia Dimitropoulou, Child rights expert, FRA

DIGITAL AGE

WG 25: The role and responsibility of business in respecting

privacy in a context of increased security in Europe:

Challenges and promising practices

Chair:

Erich Schweighofer, Professor, University of Vienna,

Centre for Computers and Law;

Speakers:

Michal Boni, Member of the European Parliament, former

Minister of Administration and Digitization of Poland

Joseph Cannataci, Professor, UN Special Rapporteur on the

Right to privacy

Gail Kent, Head of Security Policy, Facebook;

Cornelia Kutterer, EU Government Affairs & Digital Policy

Director, Microsoft;

Krzysztof Zalewski, Data protection expert, FRA.

WG 27: Respecting privacy rights in the commercial use of

personal data

Chair:

Bojana Bellamy, President of the Centre for Information

Policy Leadership, Hunton & Williams

Speakers:

Athena Bourka, Expert in Network and Information Security

at European Union Agency for Network and Information

Security (ENISA)

Lucy Purdon, Project Manager, Institute for Human Rights

and Business


Final Programme 26

Marit Hansen, Commissioner of the Data Protection

Authority of Schleswig Holstein

David Wright, Founder and Manging Partner of Trilateral

Research and Consulting

Stephen Deadman, Facebook, Deputy Global Chief Privacy

Officer

Diego Naranjo, Advocacy Manager, European Digital Rights

Zoe Kardasiadou, Data protection expert, FRA

13.00 – 13.30 SANDWICH LUNCH (SERVED OUTSIDE WG ROOMS)


13.30 – 15.00 WORKING GROUPS – CONTINUATION OF MORNING SESSION

15.00 – 15.30 BREAK


15.30 – 16.45 CLOSING PANEL:


Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration,

Home Affairs and Citizenship (video message)

Michal Boni, Member of the European Parliament, former

Minister of Administration and Digitization of Poland

Lucia Žitňanská , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of

Justice of the Slovak Republic, Slovak EU Presidency (second

semester 2016)

Helena Dalli, Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs

and Civil Liberties, Maltese EU Presidency (first semester

2017)

Stavros Lambrinidis, European Union’s Special

Representative for Human Rights.

16.45 – 17.00 CHAIR’S STATEMENT:


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