Linda Greta Zsiga is a Roma woman, human rights activist, with experience in the area of the right to housing and protection against forced evictions. She is an active campaigner for the right to decent housing and social housing for disadvantaged groups, in particular the Roma living in Pata Rat, on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, in close proximity to the city’s garbage dump /landfill. She collaborates closely with other activists, Roma and non-Roma, promoting social justice, antiracism and non-discrimination.
Break-out session 1:
Racialised communities and law enforcement
Efficient policing and respect for fundamental rights are complementary. Law enforcement authorities are key actors in ensuring that law is obeyed and that security is ensured. Recognising diversity and ensuring fair law enforcement is essential to fighting racism. However, reports of discrimination are long standing: the FRA has included unlawful profiling and police action in its research. Such discrimination can damage trust in the authorities and lead to other negative outcomes, such as underreporting of crimes and resistance to public authority.
In addition new technologies can bring new challenges to racial equality and non-discrimination. What role will the new AI act regulation play in the use of remote biometric identification, and in particular facial recognition, for law enforcement purposes in public spaces?
Moderator: Larry Olomofe, Managing Director, Cosmodernity Consultants, Poland
Scene setting by Elise Lassus, Researcher in the Research and Data Unit, European Agency for Fundamental Rights
Rima Hanano is founding member and head of CLAIM. CLAIM unites and brings together 47 Muslim and non-Muslim civil society actors and forms a strong and diverse alliance against anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia across Germany.
Before joining CLAIM in 2017, Rima Hanano has been working for an political educational project, aiming to contribute to a more balanced and factual debate on Muslims and Islam in Germany. She has more than 15 years of experience working for national and international CSOs. Rima Hanano holds a diploma degree in economics with a focus on development economics.
NGO
CLAIM unites and brings together 47 Muslim and non-Muslim civil society actors and forms a strong and diverse alliance against anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia across Germany. Through nation-wide networking, CLAIM works to strengthen civil-society actors. Through information exchange and preventative advocacy, CLAIM counteracts Islamophobic activities that endanger the common good of the people in Germany and across Europe. CLAIM puts effective structures in place that promote professional exchange and cooperation in Germany and across Europe, and support organisations and projects to further build their capacity along these areas. Through publications, conferences and working groups, CLAIM fosters the development of evidence-based research, and put issues on the agenda that rarely get discussed. CLAIM works to improve data on the number of anti-Muslim incidents in Germany and across Europe, not only to help those affected, but to influence civil-society actors vis-a-vis political decision-makers. CLAIM is part of the Competence Network "Islamophobia and hostility against Muslims" as part of the federal program "Demokratie leben!". <br />
Break-out session 1:
Racialised communities and law enforcement
Efficient policing and respect for fundamental rights are complementary. Law enforcement authorities are key actors in ensuring that law is obeyed and that security is ensured. Recognising diversity and ensuring fair law enforcement is essential to fighting racism. However, reports of discrimination are long standing: the FRA has included unlawful profiling and police action in its research. Such discrimination can damage trust in the authorities and lead to other negative outcomes, such as underreporting of crimes and resistance to public authority.
In addition new technologies can bring new challenges to racial equality and non-discrimination. What role will the new AI act regulation play in the use of remote biometric identification, and in particular facial recognition, for law enforcement purposes in public spaces?
Moderator: Larry Olomofe, Managing Director, Cosmodernity Consultants, Poland
Scene setting by Elise Lassus, Researcher in the Research and Data Unit, European Agency for Fundamental Rights
EU Institutions
Break-out session 1:
Racialised communities and law enforcement
Efficient policing and respect for fundamental rights are complementary. Law enforcement authorities are key actors in ensuring that law is obeyed and that security is ensured. Recognising diversity and ensuring fair law enforcement is essential to fighting racism. However, reports of discrimination are long standing: the FRA has included unlawful profiling and police action in its research. Such discrimination can damage trust in the authorities and lead to other negative outcomes, such as underreporting of crimes and resistance to public authority.
In addition new technologies can bring new challenges to racial equality and non-discrimination. What role will the new AI act regulation play in the use of remote biometric identification, and in particular facial recognition, for law enforcement purposes in public spaces?
Moderator: Larry Olomofe, Managing Director, Cosmodernity Consultants, Poland
Scene setting by Elise Lassus, Researcher in the Research and Data Unit, European Agency for Fundamental Rights