✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights shares the findings of the surrogacy and sale of children study presented by Mrs Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children at the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. ✅ Most of the surrogacy agreements practiced, including in…

Objectif : favoriser l’assistance de personnes en situation de migration, telles que les personnes réfugiées et les demandeurs d’asile, en grande difficulté matérielle et morale : en leur distribuant gratuitement des repas ; en leur donnant un soutien moral et humain ;  pour ceux qui le demandent, en leur offrant une assistance juridique gratuite.  Lieu de l’action : Camp de…

UGANDA. Persecutions of homosexual persons. ✅ The government of Uganda has announced its intention to impose the death penalty on homosexuals and people promoting homosexuality. ⁣⁣ ✅ This type of law criminalizing homosexuality is outrageous and in practice gives rise to hate crimes by homophobia.⁣ ⁣ ✅ Homosexuality is still misunderstood in a number of…

Objective : To promote assistance to migrant persons, such as refugees and asylum seekers, facing rooflessness, in significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for : free meals ; moral and human support ; a free legal assistance, on the asylum procedure in Italian law and European law, for those who requested it. Location of the action : Esplanade in front of…

▶ In France, the number of Migrants rose to 800 and 1,200 in Paris and Saint-Denis, around 500 in Calais (Pas-de-Calais), around 400 in Grande-Synthe (North), around 200 in Ouistreham (Calvados), and several dozens are scattered along the coastline of the French Channel. ▶ Thousands of Migrants sleep every night on the street. ▶ Better housing Migrants…

Safeguarding fundamental rights in today’s information society is a key issue for the European Union and its Member States, as more and more people use information and communications technologies (ICT) in their daily lives at work and at home. As the European Agency for fundamental Rights explains pertinently : « However, this growing use of ICT…

BELGIUM, ALOST 🇧🇪 – CROATIA, RIJEKA 🇭🇷. ✅ Carnival has become a cultural pretext to display religious hatred and to violate Fundamental Rights. ✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights strongly denounces and strongly condemns : ⁣ 📍this scene from the Alost Carnival, in Belgium, where their is a parade with costume of…

➡ Sheela Saravanan is an Indian researcher with a Doctorate in Public Health and has worked in several German universities. It belongs in particular to the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen. As a feminist, she is interested in violence against women in India and in the South, as…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ▶ Isolated foreign minor children : bone tests are reliable only when these children are far from their majority. ▶ Try to objectify the chronological age of an isolated minor child, by using a scientific criterion or a statistical criterion based on different populations from North America or from Europe, and without taking into…

▶ Dematerialization of administrative procedures : in France, the Defender of Rights warns about the inequalities of access to public services. Digital exclusion undermines fundamental rights, such as access to minimum social benefits, access to Housing and access to justice. ▶ Fragile publics are concerned : persons who are homeless or in a precarious situation,…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons facing material and moral difficulties, through the free distribution of meals and a moral support. To restore the human dignity to homeless persons during the 2015 Christmas period.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF MARSEILLE (13), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : 26-31 December 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association  to organize…

Objective : To help in emergency, with food aid and a material and human assistance, 2 persons living in a squat – Homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of PERPIGNAN, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : October 2016 : the OENDDF Association sends out one of its Teams of volunteers, in an emergency case, to help, with food aid and a material…

✅ A Mobile Team of the OENDDF’s Street Work succeeds, with the support of the dynamic Association ROMSI, in the rehousing of a young Romanian mother and her 4 children to INDRE (44), in the area of NANTES (LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE). ✅ This family leaves a squalid caravan and a muddy ground. ✅ Direct rehousing of homeless persons is…

 Objective : To help homeless persons. To meet during a festive event local Associations which work to help them every month. Location of the action : Downtown of NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : 11 December 2015 : Our Association has participated to the night of Fraternity with homeless persons, well organized by the « Logement-Fraternité Association » …

Access to justice for all those who are victims of trafficking in human beings must be a priority of the Member States of the European Union. 1. EU POLICY On the 10th october 2016, the European Commission reports on Member States measures to combat trafficking in human beings The European Commission has adopted today two…

1/ The European Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out the basic rights that must be respected both by the European Union and the Member States when implementing EU law. The European Charter of Fundamental Rights is a legally binding instrument that was drawn up in order to expressly recognise, and give visibility to, the role…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ✅ The City of PARIS has around 6,000 traffic lanes. ✅ Among these, only 247 traffic lanes have a name referring to a woman (or a female community), according to the selection criteria. ✅ Names referring to a man are around 3,200 or 4,000, depending on the source. ✅ The City of PARIS,…

1/ The European Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out the basic rights that must be respected both by the European Union and the Member States when implementing EU law. The European Charter of Fundamental Rights is a legally binding instrument that was drawn up in order to expressly recognise, and give visibility to, the role…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, Rom and Romanian persons, through the free provision of meals and housing aid, to encourage their professional integration and social promotion. Location of action : SAINT-HERBLAIN, Loire-Atlantique, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: February 2015 : The EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY FOR NON-DISCRIMINATION AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS has taken the initiative to support…

 in the worldAccording to the Annual Report of the United Nations Refugee Agency, wars, violence and persecution have pushed forced displacement around the world to a new record, with 68.5 million people uprooted in 2017, an all-out two seconds, about the population of Thailand. The term « refugee » refers to anyone who, « with a well-founded fear…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons facing material and moral difficulties, through the free distribution of meals and a moral support. Location of the action : ALPES MARITIMES department (06), MENTON, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : August 4-5 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association to organize a free distribution operation of meals to homeless persons in MENTON (06, FRANCE) and…

Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons, through free distributions of meals and a social support. To restore the human dignity of homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF NANTES (44) AND ANGERS (49), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : February-March 2016 : We provided social support and free distribution operations of meals through our outreach teams, our day-time and night-time…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons facing material and moral difficulties, especially homeless persons, through their professional integration and their social promotion. Means and resources deployed : Location of action : VANNES (MORBIHAN, 56), FRANCE. June 2nd 2015 : Our Association has sent a team of volunteers in VANNES (Morbihan, 56). We met…

✅ In Africa, BOTSWANA decriminalizes homosexuality and thus fights the frequent physical violence against LGBTQI persons in this country. ✅ Since 1965, same-sex relationships in Botswana have been punishable by up to 7 years in prison. The country’s High Court ended this on Tuesday 11 June 2019. An anonymous person, whose initials LM is known, was behind…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ✅ The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against FRANCE for the  » inhuman living conditions  » of asylum seekers and for its lack of assistance to these asylum seekers, forced to live “on the street” and « deprived of means of subsistence ». ✅ The European Court also observed that the three exiled…

World Day Against Child Labor. Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment. Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour; almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour. In absolute terms, almost half of child labour (72.1 million) is to be found in Africa; 62.1 million…

I. HOMELESSNESS IN EUROPEAN UNION  In the European Union, according to a study by the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and the European Federation of National Associations working with the homeless, nearly 11 million households out of 220 million households do not have personal housing. These 11 million households are in a state of severe deprivation of housing : on…