The REBUILD project comes to an end with an online final conference
On 28 March 2021, the REBUILD project came to end with an online final conference in which project partners, including FRC, presented project activities and findings.
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New publication on privacy
FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, and LSTS member, Alessandra Calvi, have just published a contribution entitled 'Privacy' to the new Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Data Science, edited by prof.
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FRC Publishes a Blogpost on the Annual Conference
Following the FRC Annual Conference, the FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti, Julia Zomignani Barboza, and Sibel Top summarised the main discussion points of the day in a short blogpost published in the Human Rights Here blog.
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FRC Joins the HEROES Kick-Off Meeting
On 15 and 16 December 2021, FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti and Júlia Zomignani Barboza, join the Kick Off Meeting of the HEROES project.
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New Publication: FRC Members Explore the Role of Data Protection in the Protection of Migrant
Based on their participation on the REBUILD project, FRC member Júlia Zomignani Barboza and FRC co-director Prof. Dr.
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FRC Member Has Been Selected for the #ThesisThread Finals
We are happy to announce that FRC member, Sibel Top, has been selected for the finals of the #ThesisThread competition. The #ThesisThreat competition is an initiative by the Doctoral Schools of the five Flemish universities to promote the development of science...
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FRC Member Holds the Virtual Lunch Talk Organised by the European Association for Biometrics
FRC member, Bianca-Ioana Marcu will hold the Virtual Lunch Talk "Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Migrants", on 19 October 2021, 12.30-13.30. This Lunch Talk will be a conversation around the use of biometric data particularly i...
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New Publication: Disproportionate Surveillance: Technology-Assisted and Automated Decisions in Asylum Applications in the EU?
LSTS member, Lina Jasmontaite, and FRC member, Júlia Zomignani Barboza, published a new article on the International Journal of Refugee Law entitled 'Disproportionate Surveillance: Technology-Assisted and Automated Decisions in Asylum Applications in the EU?'.
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FRC Joins the Conference on 'Human Rights in Pandemic Times Political Exceptionalism, Social Vulnerability & Restricted Freedoms. International and European Perspectives.
Prof. Paul de Hert, Dr. Amy Weatherburn, and Júlia Zomignani Barboza worked on a contribution to the Conference on 'Human Rights in Pandemic Times Political Exceptionalism, Social Vulnerability & Restricted Freedoms.
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New Publication: Unfolding the Case of Returnees
FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti and Júlia Zomignani Barboza, just published a new article on the Special Issue of the International Review of the Red Cross on counter-terrorism. The article is entitled "Unfolding the case of returnees: How the European Union and its member...
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Call for Papers for the IDEAS Conference on (Dis)Integration from an (In)equality Perspective
On 16th July 2021, the call for paper for the IDEAS Conference on (Dis)Integration from an (In)equality Perspective was launched. The conference, which will be co-organised by the Institut d'études européennes of the ULB, the Institute for European Studies of...
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FRC Members Present at the Migration Conference 2021
Júlia Zomignani Barboza and Lisa Feirabend worked on a contribution to the Migration Conference 2021 on how COVID-19 affected the fundamental rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Belgium. Focusing on two categories of vulnerable migrants – namely asylum seeke...
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