FRANCE 🇫🇷, NANTES. ✅ Pioneer and dynamic, the City of NANTES will transform into a “giant vegetable garden” to give vegetables to families in need, following the COVID-19 epidemic. ✅ With Operation « Nourishing landscapes », 25,000 m2 of land will be cultivated. Vegetables will replace flowers and green spaces will become vegetable gardens. This new experience…

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…

 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. 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…

World Refugee Day is celebrated every year on 20 June, following the adoption of resolution 55/76 of the General Assembly of the UN on December 4, 2000. On June 20, coinciding with the adoption of the Convention 1951 relating to the status of refugees. As pointed out by UNICEF – FRANCE : « By signing the…

✅ The European Observatory on Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights was the driving force behind the creation of the African Observatory of Civic Freedoms and Fundamental Rights, with a view to federating a group of Associations in charge of solidarity and insecurity, the challenges faced Africa.  ✅ The European Observatory on Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights notably assisted…

UNION EUROPEENNE 🇪🇺. ✅ 17 mai 2020 : la Journée internationale contre l’homophobie et la transphobie vise à promouvoir des actions de sensibilisation et de prévention pour lutter contre la lesbophobie, la gayphobie, la biphobie et la transphobie. ✅ Le siège de Bruxelles de l’Union Européenne s’est illuminé pour célébrer notre diversité et nos valeurs….

GERMANY 🇩🇪.⁣ ✅ The City of BERLIN becomes a pioneer by enacting an anti-discrimination law relating to public officials. ✅ The Police are directly concerned in the fight against discrimination linked to race.⁣ ✅ Some Police Unions are outraged at « widespread suspicion » against the Police. ⁣ One provision particularly irritates opponents of the new system…

Objective : To promote the integration of Roma and Romanian persons, and their children, living in extreme material and moral difficulties in FRANCE, through : learning of the French language to promote a better integration in FRANCE ; fight against existing discrimination, including those of local authorities ; free distribution of meals ; human and moral…

▶️ Surrogacy is a reduction to slavery. ▶️ Women’s bodies are not for sale. ▶️ The industry based on trafficking in human beings is a criminal offense. This article is an extract from the Collective for the respect of the person (CoRP), collectif-corp.com :   » Mesopotamia. The return. The first known historical occurrence of a form of surrogacy is a Mesopotamian…

Objective : Emergency humanitarian aid to homeless christian migrants, in SAINT-OUEN, PARIS-NORD, FRANCE. Location of the action : SAINT-OUEN, PARIS-NORD, FRANCE. Date : December 2019 Means and resources deployed : ✅ A OENDDF Mobile Team carried out a humanitarian mission in SAINT OUEN-PARIS NORD, to meet families of homeless migrants, of Christian faith, from Colombia…

FRANCE, LA ROCHELLE 🇫🇷. ✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights is on the ground and in action: we help those who are forgotten, by joining them where they are, whatever their social situation may be, in the streets. ✅ Hereby you will find some pictures of street patrols mission, to help homeless persons….

Objective : To look for warm and safe accommodation for homeless persons in ILE-DE-FRANCE. Location of the action : ILE-DE-FRANCE  – Suburbs of PARIS.  Means and resources deployed : December 2017 : Winter Patrols in the ILE-DE-FRANCE Region look for warm and safe accommodation for homeless persons, without waiting for the Plan « Great Cold » of the public authorities. The European…

FRANCE : The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (in abbreviated : « OENDDF ») was heard on April 6, 2018 by the National Consultative Committee of Ethics (in abbreviated : « CCNE »), within the framework of the National Consultations on Bioethics, in FRANCE. ➡ These hearings in PARIS are part of a whole system deployed by…

In June 2019, the O.E.N.D.D.F. has published a new Study on the consequences of Surrogacy, for Indian surrogate mothers, proving women’s sufferings & violations of their Fundamental Rights, on the basis of 45 cases of Surrogacy in INDIA. This Study with almost 220 pages was conducted in the field by Dr. Sheela SARAVANAN, an Indian researcher with a Doctorate…

 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 » …

✅ 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…

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…

Policing Hate Crime against LGBTIQ persons : Training for a Professional Police Response. Especially, Module Five helps participants to understand the work of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and how the Police can best work with them to improve responses to victims. ■ The police are at the frontline of the criminal justice system and the…

Objective : To encourage the social and professional integration of young homeless persons, through an emergency housing activity, for their access to sustainable and stable housing. Means and resources deployed :  partnerships with Hotels for emergency housing activity, funded by our Organisation. Location of action : ANGERS (Maine-et-Loire), FRANCE. June 2015: implementation of an emergency housing activity in a hotel structure for homeless persons. Geoffrey is 29 years old and is…

Objective : To encourage housing actions of homeless persons in flats from the private housing stock and to promote their social integration.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of NANTES (Budapest Street), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : February-July 2016 : During the 2016 winter, sending out one of our Teams of volunteers of our Association, in emergency cases, to seek for emergency accomodation for…

Objective : To help homeless persons and socially isolated persons with food aid. Location of the action : NANTES, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : From December 2017 to March 2018 : OENDDF Mobile Teams on patrol were in NANTES to support homeless persons and very socially isolated persons, with food aid.  Creation of social link and relationships…

Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons through free distribution operations of meals and a human and moral support. To restore the human dignity of homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Means and resources deployed : March 2016 : A Team of volunteers of our Association flight to LONDON. Thanks to the French newspaper…

Partnership with the National Association P.S.O.U.U. in POLAND Since February 2015, to support non-discrimination policy against persons with mental or intellectual disabilities, and to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities, the European Observatory of non-discrimination and fundamental rights has agreed a partnership with the National Association PSOUU in POLAND to materially support very positive and very concrete actions to…

BANGLADESH 🇧🇩. ✅ Bangladesh isolates stateless Rohingya Muslims on a “cyclone-swept” island in the Bay of Bengal. ✅ This submersible island in the Bay of Bengal emerged from the waters in 2012 because of the tides and changing currents. ✅ Victims for years of abuses by the Burmese army, these very poor Muslim refugees form…

COUNCIL OF EUROPE, STRASBOURG, FRANCE.  ▶ « Article 31 – The Right to Housing With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing, the Parties undertake to take measures designed: to promote access to housing of an adequate standard ; to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination ;…

1/ In the framework of Surrogacy (also : Surrogate motherhood, gestational Surrogacy), and according to a Transparency Market Research study, surrogacy market was expected to reach $ 4.8 billion in 2017 worldwide. A mother must not become a simple means to transfer international funds. Woman’s body is not for sale. 2/ Extract from the Website : « Justice…

In the field of ​​Gender Equality, and based on statistics indicating that more than one billion girls worldwide do not have the same rights as boys, we published on Twitter (@europeanobs) information on the need for education for Gender Equality : Égalité hommes-femmes et égalité filles-garçons : la discrimination sur ces droits reste tenace dans…

FRANCE : The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (in abbreviated : « OENDDF ») was heard on April 6, 2018 by the National Consultative Committee of Ethics (in abbreviated : « CCNE »), within the framework of the National Consultations on Bioethics, in FRANCE. ➡ These hearings in PARIS are part of a whole system deployed by…

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,…

Objective:  promoting and supporting the rights of the child in countries outside the European Union, including through the implementation of educational and development programmes for children forcibly conscripted or displaced during armed conflicts and civil wars, with a view to encouraging their future professional integration.  Means and resources deployed: working with the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) « Save…

Homeless Veterans, in the United States – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. ➡ The US National Coalition for Homeless Veterans estimates that on any given night, 200.000 veterans are homeless and 400.000 veterans will experience homeless during the course or a year. ➡ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD on the right picture – combined with a lack…

Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons, through free distributions of meals, and to raise awareness about social exclusion.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF LISBON, PORTUGAL. Means and resources deployed : May 2016 : The objectives of our Association were as following : to create contacts or partnerships with local Associations to implement a global approach of homeless persons (meals, housing,…

Objective : To encourage the integration of of Roma and Romanian persons, and their young children, living in extreme material and moral difficulties in FRANCE. To provide for free distribution of meals and moral support. To restore the human dignity of Roma and Romanian persons, with their young children. To promote children’s rights and their right to education. Location…