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…

Objective : To support homeless persons in GRENOBLE, FRANCE. Location of the action : GRENOBLE, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : ✅ A OENDDF Mobile Team on patrol was in GRENOBLE to meet homeless persons and families of migrants, to discuss with them, to help them with food aid and to support them. ✅ We met especially young…

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…

Objective : To encourage the integration of Roma and Romanian children, living in extreme material and moral difficulties in FRANCE. To provide for free distribution of schoolbags. To promote children’s rights, living in discriminated communities, and their right to education. Location of the action : area of NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : September 2018 : Our Association sent out a Team of volunteers to…

▶ 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. 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 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,…

✅ 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…

Objective : Encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, through an emergency housing activity, for their access to housing. Means and resources deployed :  partnerships with Hotels for emergency housing activity, funded by the Association. Location of action : NANTES, FRANCE. May 8 2015: implementation of an emergency housing activity in a hotel structure for Ludovic and Daniel, homeless persons and street…

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…

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…

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…

20 juin 2019 : Journée Mondiale des réfugiés de 2019. ✅  Statistiques-clés sur les demandeurs d’asile dans l’Union Européenne. ✅ La Journée Mondiale des réfugiés est organisée chaque année le 20 juin par le Haut-Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés (H.C.R. – O.N.U.) et vise à sensibiliser la population à la situation des réfugiés dans le…

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 support homeless persons in NANTES, FRANCE. Location of the action: NANTES (« Pays de la Loire » region), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed :  March 2019 : Our N.G.O. sent out several Teams of volunteers in the area of NANTES, FRANCE to provide homeless persons with concrete food aid, to make them aware of their rights, to encourage…

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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…

Gender-based violence.  This scheme, called « Iceberg of gender-based violence », shows us the different layers of gender-based violence. More news ? Our Platform and N.G.O. is on social networks : Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram #equality #genderbasedviolence [av_content_slider heading= » columns=’1′ animation=’slide’ navigation=’arrows’ autoplay=’false’ interval=’5′ font_color= » color= »] [av_content_slide title=’The iceberg of gender-based violence.’ link= » linktarget= »] [/av_content_slide] [/av_content_slider]

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…

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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 help very isolated homeless persons in emergency, during cold nights of december, when the emergency number 115 is saturated. Location of the action : PARIS, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : Mobile Team on patrol, in PARIS, to support very isolated homeless persons, during cold nights of december, with food aid…

▶ States should step up their fight against sexism in all walks of life, according to a Recommendation just adopted by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. ▶ In response to the #MeToo and other recent movements that have heightened awareness of persistent sexism in society, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted…

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…

INDIA 🇮🇳. ✅ Homosexuality is not a disease.  It is a personal discovery that a person makes about his / her sexuality. The attempt to « cure » is a mistake. ✅ This father’s speech of tolerance on his son’s gay marriage is poignant: it provides an example of education and training in listening to and understanding…

Artificial intelligence and bioethics. ➡ Autonomous killing robots, animated by artificial intelligences, despite a warning from the UN, continue to develop in the world. ➡ The United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Self-Sustaining Arms Systems (GGE-LAWS) met from 9 to 13 April 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, with the idea of bringing together the maximum number of…

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…

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…

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 for those who requested it. Location of the action : Makeshift migrant’s settlement in a park called « Les Jardins d’Eole »,  75019 PARIS, FRANCE. Estimation : about 200 migrants….

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,…

In LAS VEGAS (NEVADA), 50,000 food service workers will go on strike if new contracts do not protect them against robotization / automation of their jobs. Among the worried, bartenders, waiters, doormen or even cooks. While this protest movement is the first in Las Vegas since 1984, the claim is formulated in these terms by…

SUDAN 🇸🇩. ✅ The Sovereign Council, the highest ruling body in Sudan, approved on July 10, 2020 a law penalizing female genital mutilation, an ancestral practice which remains widespread in the country. ✅ This High Authority, made up of civil citizens, including women, and of military citizens, has enacted a series of laws, including that…

✅ 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…

Objective: Encouraging the access to housing of people suffering from physical or mental disabilities, their professional integration, their social promotion and their social inclusion. Means and resources deployed : Closer working relationships and partnerships with the Associations of the European Union to support projects focusing on access to housing and professional integration of people with disabilities.  …

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…

Figures of poor housing, in France, in 2017. In FRANCE, the number of reforms in progress must not hide the fact that 4 million people are deprived of housing or are poorly housed :  ➡ 143,000 homeless persons ;  ➡ 25,000 persons live temporarily in an hotel as their principal residence ;  ➡ 85,000 people…

France 🇫🇷, February 1st 2019. ▶ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (OENDDF, in French) was present at the Meeting of social actors organized by the Abbé Pierre Foundation for the publication of its 24th Report on « The state of poor Housing in France – 2019 ». ▶ The issue was:  » At the gates 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…