Objective : Encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, through the free provision of meals and housing aid, to encourage their professional integration and social inclusion. Means and resources deployed : Closer working relationships and partnerships with the Associations of the European Union to support joint projects focusing on professional integration and inclusion of homeless people.   April…

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…

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 support homeless persons in LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE. Location of the action : LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : July 2018 : A OENDDF Mobile Team on patrol was in LA ROCHELLE to meet homeless persons, to discuss with them, to help them with food aid and to support them. Creation of social link…

MINISTERE DU LOGEMENT, DE L’EGALITÉ DES TERRITOIRES ET DE LA RURALITÉ Madame Sylvia PINEL 72 Rue de VARENNE 75007 PARIS – FRANCE NANTES, le 9 Juin 2016 OBJET : DEMANDE DE PROJET DE LOI MODIFICATIF EN DROIT DU LOGEMENT. Nos Réfs : CM/SJ/ HANDICAP ET PERSONNES SANS-ABRI / MINISTERE DU LOGEMENT Madame la Ministre, L’Association de l’Observatoire Européen…

▶ 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,…

 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….

FRANCE, PARIS 🇫🇷 ✅ “Sleep merchants”: on March 10, 2021, the Correctional Court of Paris handed down prison sentences against two sleep merchants, one conditional sentence of imprisonment, and one sentence of 3 years’imprisonment,  with immediate implementation, which is an extremely rare thing. The State Prosecutor had asked for the exceptional sentence up to four years’…

Objective: Encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, through the free provision of meals and housing aid, to encourage their professional integration and social promotion. Location of the action : PARIS, 14°, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: May 11/ 12 2015 : We met Didier, who is a homeless person. He was sleeping down in the street,…

▶️ In Rouen (FRANCE), yellow luggage lockers with a key are made available to homeless persons who can store their bags and papers. ▶️ These lockers are distributed in six locations in the city, which are subject to video surveillance. Each individual compartment will obviously be locked and will be allocated to one person for…

▶️ In Rouen (FRANCE), yellow luggage lockers with a key are made available to homeless persons who can store their bags and papers. ▶️ These lockers are distributed in six locations in the city, which are subject to video surveillance. Each individual compartment will obviously be locked and will be allocated to one person for…

▶ 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…

✅ 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 all the homeless persons in the streets of NANTES (FRANCE) during Christmas period.  Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : thanks to his field of expertise in social exclusion, the OENDDF Association has developed a partenership with the UCPUC Association to meet homeless persons in the streets of NANTES during Christmas period, to offer warm clothes, to…

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 : NANTES (Loire-Atlantique), FRANCE. June 2015: implementation of an emergency housing activity in a hotel structure for homeless persons. Quentin is 21 years…

CAMBODIA.  ▶ Justice in this country fights against the proliferation of children trafficking since the Surrogacy-based reproductive industry has elected it as a host country. ▶ According to a Police Report, 32 women were hired by the leaders of this ring, who promised a sum of $10,000 / baby, to carry and to sell their…

▶️ In Rouen (FRANCE), yellow luggage lockers with a key are made available to homeless persons who can store their bags and papers. ▶️ These lockers are distributed in six locations in the city, which are subject to video surveillance. Each individual compartment will obviously be locked and will be allocated to one person for…

Objective : To support collective actions against homelessness.  Location of the action : PARIS, PALAIS-ROYAL, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (E.O.N.D.F.R.) supports the French  » Collectif des Morts de la Rue  » : an artificial cemetery for homeless people who died in 2016 was created at Place du Palais-Royal in PARIS. This…

1/ The painful journey of pregnant homeless women in the street. ▶ « The 115 for cradle? » With this question, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation warns the public authorities and denounces, in its 21st Report devoted to poor housing in France, the situation of many pregnant and precarious women in France. « We regret the lack of follow-up upstream…

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…

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…

The European Court of Human Rights condemns the Croatian Government for failure to hold effective investigation into allegation of human trafficking and exploitation of prostitution.  Facts : The applicant lodged a criminal complaint against a certain T.M., a former policeman, alleging that in the period between the summer of 2011 and September of the same year…

▶ Mickey MEJI founded in South Africa the abolitionist movement of women survivors of prostitution « KWANELE ». ▶ Having experienced prostitution for 9 years, she has especially campaigned with the sex work Lobby before becoming an abolitionist.  ▶ Today, she fights for the voices of the survivors (700) and their true wishes for their future. ▶…

▶ 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…

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…

✅ 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…

Belgium 🇧🇪. ▶ The violence of the Belgian police against migrants, including minor migrants (around 30%) comes to light  : dog bites, fingers returned, strip searches in front of hilarious female staff, threats of execution, simulations of prostitution scenes. ▶ International survey with 440 witnesses. ▶ The violation of the Fundamental Rights for migrants that…

✅ 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…

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…

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…

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…

We published news on Twitter to further combat the « culture of rape » : Le Royaume-Uni lutte contre la culture du viol et lance une campagne-choc pour plus de plaintes. #cultureduviol https://t.co/HpOz1J101y — O.E.N.D.D.F. (ONG) (@europeanobs) November 3, 2017 Avis de 2016 du HCE pour une juste condamnation sociétale et judiciaire du viol et d’autres agressions…

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…