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Brussels Privacy Convening Focuses on Empowering Vulnerable and Marginalized People, Launches New Project

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Saturday, November 26, 2022
People, Future, European Digital Rights, Future of Privacy Forum, European Commission, European Network Against Racism, FPF, Digital data, Privacy, International Observatory of Human Rights, European Data Protection Supervisor, Racism, Policy, VUB, Research, Society, Global Privacy Enforcement Network, Woman, Bias, Information privacy, Disability, Digital rights, Person, GDPR, Industry, Organization, Color, Income, Medical device

Brussels Privacy Convening Focuses on Empowering Vulnerable and Marginalized People, Launches New Project

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  • Brussels Privacy Convening Focuses on Empowering Vulnerable and Marginalized People, Launches New Project
    The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a global non-profit focused on data protection and privacy, and the Brussels Privacy Hub of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will jointly present the sixth edition of the Brussels Privacy Symposium on November 15, 2022.
  • The in-person event will convene in Brussels, bringing together policymakers, academic researchers, civil society, and industry representatives to discuss privacy research and scholarship.
  • In line with this years topic, Vulnerable People, Marginalization, and Data Protection, participants will explore the extent to which data protection and privacy law including GDPR and other modern data protection laws like Brazils LGPD safeguard and empower vulnerable and marginalized people.
  • The event marks the launch of VULNERA, the International Observatory on Vulnerable People in Data Protection, led by the Brussels Privacy Hub and supported by the Future of Privacy Forum.

Highlights - Socio-economic position of women - Public Hearing - 25.05.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Articles, Gender and society, Gender roles, Feminism and society, Social constructionism, Enar, European Network Against Racism, Sociology of gender, Gender equality

This hearing offered a specific focus on the feedback experiences of women from race or cultural backgrounds of African, Middle-eastern and Asian descent, who live in the European Union.

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  • This hearing offered a specific focus on the feedback experiences of women from race or cultural backgrounds of African, Middle-eastern and Asian descent, who live in the European Union.
  • The aim is to better understand the degree of their social and economic integration, their difficulties and their hopes, so as to imagine and develop practical, integrative and effective equality policies.
  • The following speakers presented their experiences, analysis and suggestions : Dr. Cline BARRY from the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Research at the TU Berlin, Mrs Julie PASCOT from the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), Mrs Caroline BRAC DE LA PERRIERE, who is Founding Member and the Executive Director of the Mediterranean Women's Fund and Dr Dagmar SCHIEK, Vice-Dean for Research University College Cork, Ireland.
  • Their presentation was followed by a Q&A session with Members of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Highlights - Intersectional forms of discrimination - Exchange of views - 2/4/2019 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Discrimination, Human behavior, Articles, Feminist theory, Behavior, Social constructionism, Critical theory, Intersectionality, FEMM, European Network Against Racism, Racism, Non-governmental organization

FEMM will hold an exchange of views with NGOs about intersectional forms of discrimination.

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  • FEMM will hold an exchange of views with NGOs about intersectional forms of discrimination.
  • It will allow Members to explore different perspectives of different groups of women, with a specific focus on intersectional discrimination of women linked namely to race, ethnicity and religion.
  • Guests invited for the dialogue are Isabela Michalache, Advocacy Officer at the European Network Against Racism and Violeta Naydenova, Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute.