World Refugee Day

Introducing the Vantage Foundation: A New Charity Racing to Raise Awareness of Invisible Challenges

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

The Foundation's primary mission is to raise awareness and advocacy of invisible challenges on a global scale.

Key Points: 
  • The Foundation's primary mission is to raise awareness and advocacy of invisible challenges on a global scale.
  • These often-invisible challenges, including depression, anxiety and loneliness, play a role in social immobility and struggle.
  • Ian James, Managing Director of NEOM McLaren Electric Racing explains, "Our partnership with Vantage Markets in Extreme E helps to raise awareness of the impact of climate change by racing sustainably.
  • We are proud to play a part in the launch of The Foundation, looking to raise awareness of other important challenges on a global scale."

Introducing the Vantage Foundation: A New Charity Racing to Raise Awareness of Invisible Challenges

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, October 12, 2023

The Foundation's primary mission is to raise awareness and advocacy of invisible challenges on a global scale.

Key Points: 
  • The Foundation's primary mission is to raise awareness and advocacy of invisible challenges on a global scale.
  • These often-invisible challenges, including depression, anxiety and loneliness, play a role in social immobility and struggle.
  • Ian James, Managing Director of NEOM McLaren Electric Racing explains, "Our partnership with Vantage Markets in Extreme E helps to raise awareness of the impact of climate change by racing sustainably.
  • We are proud to play a part in the launch of The Foundation, looking to raise awareness of other important challenges on a global scale."

International cooperation in data protection: not an option, but vital to our tasks

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.

Key Points: 
  • In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.
  • Why not adopt some of the practices shared below to keep your information safe?
  • Tip #1 on privacy check-ups
    Tip #2 on how to share with care online
    Tip #3 on how to say yes to fishing no to phishing!
  • In episode 5, learn more about XAI, processing data to combat crime, the role of a data protection officer, and more.

Swift adoption of Regulation to streamline cross-border enforcement needed

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.

Key Points: 
  • In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.
  • Why not adopt some of the practices shared below to keep your information safe?
  • Tip #1 on privacy check-ups
    Tip #2 on how to share with care online
    Tip #3 on how to say yes to fishing no to phishing!
  • In episode 5, learn more about XAI, processing data to combat crime, the role of a data protection officer, and more.

Financial and payment services: use of personal data should remain proportionate and fair

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.

Key Points: 
  • In the next few weeks, we will be sharing some of our tips to help you protect your personal data and your privacy when on holiday.
  • Reshaping the EDPS to tackle data protection challenges
    EDPS makes organisational changes to tackle future data protection challenges.
  • In episode 5, learn more about XAI, processing data to combat crime, the role of a data protection officer, and more.
  • Newsletter #102
    Data Protection Conferences, Podcasts, latest Opinions, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Privacy ... it's all in our latest newsletter edition, available to read now.

EDPS finds that the CJEU’s use of cloud videoconferencing services complies with data protection law

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Friday, July 14, 2023

EDPS finds that the CJEU’s use of cloud videoconferencing services complies with data protection law

Key Points: 
  • EDPS finds that the CJEU’s use of cloud videoconferencing services complies with data protection law
    Read the EDPS Press Release and Decision on CJEU's use of Cisco Webex videoconferencing and related services.
  • Read the EDPS Press Release and Decision on CJEU's use of Cisco Webex videoconferencing and related services.
  • In episode 5, learn more about XAI, processing data to combat crime, the role of a data protection officer, and more.
  • Data Protection Conferences, Podcasts, latest Opinions, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Privacy ... it's all in our latest newsletter edition, available to read now.

Reshaping the EDPS to tackle data protection challenges

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Monday, July 10, 2023

Reshaping the EDPS to tackle data protection challenges

Key Points: 
  • Reshaping the EDPS to tackle data protection challenges
    EDPS makes organisational changes to tackle future data protection challenges.
  • EDPS makes organisational changes to tackle future data protection challenges.
  • In episode 5, learn more about XAI, processing data to combat crime, the role of a data protection officer, and more.
  • Data Protection Conferences, Podcasts, latest Opinions, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Privacy ... it's all in our latest newsletter edition, available to read now.

Criminals, terrorists and freeloaders: how migrants are portrayed in the European media

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

There were an estimated 750 people on board, 70 were confirmed to have died and only 104 were rescued from the wreckage – leaving many unaccounted for.

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  • There were an estimated 750 people on board, 70 were confirmed to have died and only 104 were rescued from the wreckage – leaving many unaccounted for.
  • In March, another shipwreck, this time off Italy, left nearly 100 people dead.
  • The figures, driven in part by the war in Ukraine, even exceed those during the Mediterranean refugee crisis between 2015 and 2016.

Migration in Southern Europe

    • As has been the case this year with the shipwrecks referred to above, the focus of this crisis was in southern Europe.
    • In June of that year, in Spain, the arrival of the Aquarius boat marked a turning point.
    • One of the demands made by these countries, and which is precisely behind the declaration of a migration emergency in Italy, is the need for migration management at the European level, as the burden of managing arrivals falls almost exclusively on the national authorities, when it is a European challenge.

Hate in the media

    • But the phenomenon of racism and rejection of migrants is very complex, and is often related to the representation of these people in the media.
    • This project has recently resulted in a book, entitled Migrants and Refugees in Southern Europe Beyond the News Stories: Photographs, Hate and Journalists’ Perceptions.

Observations of concern

    • It was found that mainstream media in Mediterranean countries are dominated by those frames that depict migrants as victims or as a burden.
    • Moreover, negative frames (both those portraying migrants as a burden and those identifying them as a threat) have grown significantly between 2014 and 2019.
    • Although the pattern is shared across the three countries, it is the Greek media that make a substantially more negative representation of migration through their frames.

How to reverse this situation


    In order to achieve a more humane representation of migration in the media, we propose three strategies:
    • This is necessary to tell the whole story, so as not to limit migrants to a mass in front of our borders.
    • David Blanco-Herrero receives funding from the Ministry of Universities under the FPU programme (ref.

The EU should uphold its values at its borders: a few words on World Refugee Day

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

The EU should uphold its values at its borders: a few words on World Refugee Day

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The EU should uphold its values at its borders: a few words on World Refugee Day
Read EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski's blogpost to mark World Refugee Day as we pay respect to the courage of refugees that have to flee their countries to escape war, persecutions and other disasters.

NEW REFUGEE REPORT SHOWS PRIORITIZING GENDER EQUALITY THROUGH COMPASSIONATE LEADERSHIP OF WOMEN AND GIRLS CRUCIAL TO ACHIEVING UN SDGs

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- "They saw the ship that was going to take them to Italy. It was… something that could crack anytime. But, she did not look back. I will die in the sea or I will go back and die there. She had to swim to the [boat]. If you did not know how to swim, you died… She did not know how to swim, but she got in the water. The man who was with her… helped her to get to the boat, because he did not want to go back. If they died, they died with each other."

Key Points: 
  • A new report published on World Refugee Day, 20th June, 2023, shows that feminist interventions prioritizing compassion and connection empower women and girls to serve their communities.
  • A new report published on World Refugee Day on the 20th June, 2023, shows that feminist interventions prioritizing compassion and connection have a demonstrably positive impact on mental well-being and help to empower women and girls to serve their communities.
  • The report, from Footage Foundation, is based on research* with refugee women and girls that started in 2016.
  • If we are to achieve any of the SDGs by 2030 we need to prioritize SDG5 and focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as leaders," concludes Dr. Eglinton.