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 help very isolated homeless persons, thanks to actions of relocations.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of NANTES , FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : December 2016 –  January 2017 : During the 2016 winter, one of our Teams of volunteers of our Association was among very isolated homeless persons, living in the streets for many years, in emergency cases because of a severe cold…

Objective : To help very isolated homeless persons, thanks to actions of relocations.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of NANTES , FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : December 2016 –  January 2017 : During the 2016 winter, one of our Teams of volunteers of our Association was among very isolated homeless persons, living in the streets for many years, in emergency cases because of a severe cold…

Objective : To help Iraqi refugees, asylees in FRANCE, suffering from significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for free meals, as well as moral and human support. Location of the action : Region of MIDI-PYRENEES, near TOULOUSE (31), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : May 22-23-24 2015 : Sending a Team of volunteers of the European…

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…

Brunei 🇧🇳. ✅ Actor George Clooney is calling for a boycott of hotels linked to the Sultan of Brunei to denounce the persecution of homosexual persons by Sharia and whipping. ✅ The new law of Brunei, located on the island of Borneo, also provides for the death penalty for adultery and the amputation of a…

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…

✅ 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…

▶ In France, faced with hatred against homosexual persons on the Web, the Gay-friendly Lawyers Network, Stop Homophobie Association and Mousse Association decided to join forces to stop impunity on social Networks, especially on Twitter. ▶  200 criminal complaints were filed on January 17, 2019 by 20 Lawyers in 12 French Courts. Learn more : Hate against…

CHINA 🇨🇳. ✅ Uyghurs : FRANCE asks for a mission of independent observers under the auspices of the United  Nations, to go and investigate the persecution camps set up in Xinjiang.  ✅ Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian denounced “unjustifiable practices” perpetrated, according to him, against the Uyghur minority. In front of the National Assembly, the Foreign…

Objective:  Encouraging the integration of persons facing serious material and moral difficulties through the provision of free meals and housing assistance to encourage their professional integration and social promotion. Fighting extreme poverty and social exclusion, and encouraging social inclusion.  Location of action : NANTES, Loire-Atlantique, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: February 2015 : during a period of extremely cold weather in FRANCE, the…

Conseil Départemental Monsieur le Président Michel DAGBERT Rue Ferdinand Buisson 62018 ARRAS Cedex  PARIS, le 16 Juin 2016 OBJET : mise en oeuvre des recommandations de l’UNICEF-FRANCE Nos réfs : CM/SJ/ Droits des enfants / UNICEF-FRANCE/ Enquête « ni sains, ni saufs » Monsieur le Président, Nous soutenons activement les actions de l’UNICEF, et notamment celles de…

Working with Roma: Participation and empowerment of local communities  There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to local inclusion but four key elements can boost the chances of success, finds the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ latest report. “Roma are subject to persistent discrimination, marginalisation and are shunned by society,” says FRA Director Michael…

Objective : To make a Street Work for homeless persons. Location of the action : MONTREAL, CANADA. Means and resources deployed : August 2017 : One of our Teams of volunteers has made a great Street Work, to meet homeless men and to face the challenges of their situation. The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (E.O.N.D.F.R.) has developed an extensive and in-depth expertise in the field of understanding…

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 : Market of  TALENSAC, NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : August-September 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association each Sunday to organize a free distribution operation of meals to persons facing material and moral…

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 : Market of  TALENSAC, NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : August-September 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association each Sunday to organize a free distribution operation of meals to persons facing material and moral…

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 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…

▶ 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…

 HATE CRIME Our Association collects good practices to improve the reporting and the recording of Hate Crime, or serious incidents related to hate crime or hate speech, especially against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, or against persons with disabilities, or serious incidents related to islamophobia, antisemitism or christianophobia in the Member States of the European Union….

Access to Justice : founded in February 2017, the French HANDILEX Network brings together Lawyers and Experts around a mission : to help persons with disabilities to enforce their rights. Actually, its mission is to relieve persons with disabilities and those around them from the administrative and legal disability management, from their accident, so that they…

✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights becomes a member of the « #ForAEuropeUnitedInSolidarity » Collective. ✅ In this Collective, 40 associations in charge of social exclusion and solidarity are united for the European elections of May 2019 in order to collectively carry a strong message in favor of a truly social Europe of solidarity and for fundamental…

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…

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…

20 June 2019 :  World Refugee Day 2019. ✅ Key statistics on Asylum Seekers in the European Union. ✅ World Refugee Day is organized every year on 20th June by the United Nations Refugee Agency (U.N.H.C.R.) and is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees worldwide. And if you were a Refugee ? Learn more…

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…

✅ On 13th June 2019, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court provisionally criminalizes homophobia pending adoption of an appropriate Law by Congress.  The Federal Supreme Court (STF) has provisionally ruled that homophobia is equivalent to the crime of racism. ✅ « Any prejudice is violence (…). Discrimination is a cause of suffering, » said Judge Carmen Luzia. Learn more : www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/06/14/Brazil/Brazil’s Federal…

Our approach to homelessness: “Housing first” Our approach is based on the provision of a complete support package for homeless people. Our approach is: a field-based one, ranging from meeting homeless people to carrying out advocacy activities vis-a-vis the European Union’s institutions; and vice versa, i.e. taking full account of studies, reports and working documents…

Objective : To support homeless persons in NICE, FRANCE. Location of the action: area of NICE (Alpes-Maritime region), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed :  December 2018 : Our Association sent out a Team of volunteers to organize during the Christmas period, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, free distributions of festive meals, a reminder of the right to the French « Active Solidarity Minimum » (« RSA ») Income 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…

This Report is part of IOM‘s implementation of two separate but complementary projects : the CARE project (Coordinated Approach for the Reintegration of Victims of Trafficking who voluntarily return to a third country) and the TACT project (Action Transnational – Safe and dignified return and reintegration of victims of trafficking who voluntarily return to three…

2018 – Burial of the right of asylum in France. « Project of law for controlled immigration and an effective right of asylum » : lowering the deadline for applying for asylum ;  non-effective legal remedy to the National Court of Asylum : uncertain notifications of Court Judgments and uncertainties of so-called « safe Countries » ; videoconferencing without a…

In the field of ​​children’s rights and unaccompanied minors, we have published on Twitter information on the fact that an unaccompanied minor is above all a child and that the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989 (sources : CRC.aspx) applies :  Mineurs isolés et Convention des droits de l’Enfant : un mineur étranger…

27 September 2017 : The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a Global Charter to support business in the fight against discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQ) in the workplace. 1/ Facts : High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called on the private…