FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty & ERRC's Bernard Rorke talk about racism, politics, and activism

09/28/21 • 30 min

How can we start combating racism in ourselves, our schools, neighbourhoods, countries and our continent?

Let's listening to a conversation between the Director of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency Michael O’Flaherty and Bernard Rorke Advocacy and Policy manager at the European Roma Rights Centre. They sat for a talk specially for the Romani Tea Room.

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How can we start combating racism in ourselves, our schools, neighbourhoods, countries and our continent?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Season 2/Episode 1: You are being watched

You are being watched - Campaigners and activists warn us about this. They say that the systems of mass surveillance and facial recognition in European countries violate human rights and hit vulnerable minorities even more.

In the EU mass surveillance is illegal. For private companies it is controlled by GDPR. There is also a law enforcement directive for the police, which giving a legal basis on how to deploy facial recognition, and other forms of biometric mass surveillance and when to do this. They are always justified for reasons of national security, but the question is, how proportional are such decisions to particular aims, and whether or not they can be substituted by something else?

In this episode of the Romani Tea Room we will try to figure out who might be watching all of us and decide whether it is simply a breach of the GDPR or a human rights issue that should concern us all. To find out, I am joined by Ella Jakubowska, who is a Policy Advisor at the international advocacy group European Digital Rights; and Benjamin Ignac, who is Croatian Roma and a Policy Research Fellow at Open Society Foundations.

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Roma in the Criminal Justice System

Today we will be talking about racism, in an area where we should expect it the least, in the justice system.

A summary report from the ERRC and Fair Trials on Roma and the criminal justice system in Czech Republic, Slovakia, North Macedonia, and Serbia has recently been published. It casts light on antigypsyism in the police, courts, and prison system.

In this episode our guests are: Krassimir Kanev from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Ioana Barbulescu, representing criminal justice watchdog Fair Trials, and Aleksandra Dubova chair of the Forum for Human Rights. In the second half of the episode we will be looking closer at the racism in the criminal justice system and the power of litigation, with our fourth guest, Dimitrina Petrova, co-founder of the Equal Rights Trust and former chair of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC).

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