In the  field of ​​children’s rights and child protection, we have published on Twitter information on the forms of physical and psychological violence against children : Violences conjugales : une étude US révèle des stigmates pour les enfants. #ViolencesConjugales https://t.co/ADfaZ2GObl — O.E.N.D.D.F. (ONG) (@europeanobs) October 25, 2017 Droits de l'enfant : l'enfant est une personne…

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…

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 : 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…

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…

✅ 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…

➡ 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…

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…

Objective : To provide for schoolbags and school supplies to children of migrants.  By signing the International Convention of Children’s Rights, FRANCE and its European neighbors are committed to ensuring the rights of all children present on their territory, without distinction. These children come to us, whatever the reason, the means and the purpose, have the right to be protected, to have…

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…

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….

 Objective : To help young homeless persons facing discrimination against them based on prejudice, misconception and intolerance because of their sexual orientation. Location of the action : RENNES (35, BRETAGNE), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : January 2016 : Supporting the actions of the Association « Le Refuge » in RENNES (BRETAGNE, FRANCE), by implementing an emergency accommodation for a homeless young adult, rejected…

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…

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 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…

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 ;…

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.  …

SPAIN 🇪🇸. ✅ The Coronavirus Covid-19 crisis has revealed the inhuman living conditions of courageous migrant workers. ✅ Because these precarious seasonal persons found themselves at the origin of dozens of clusters, the Spanish administration took this humanitarian crisis seriously. ✅ The health crisis « brought to light with all its brutality the problems which had…

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…

▶ 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…

In the  field of ​​children’s rights and child protection, we have published on Twitter information on the forms of physical and psychological violence against children : Violences conjugales : une étude US révèle des stigmates pour les enfants. #ViolencesConjugales https://t.co/ADfaZ2GObl — O.E.N.D.D.F. (ONG) (@europeanobs) October 25, 2017 Droits de l'enfant : l'enfant est une personne…

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 provide for schoolbags and school supplies to children of migrants.  By signing the International Convention of Children’s Rights, FRANCE and its European neighbors are committed to ensuring the rights of all children present on their territory, without distinction. These children come to us, whatever the reason, the means and the purpose, have the right to be protected, to have…

▶ 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…

The DIRECTIVE 2011/36 / EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, April 5, 2011, « recognizes that human trafficking has a dimension related to gender equality and that, in many cases, women and men are not victims of human trafficking for the same reasons. It is therefore appropriate that assistance and support measures are also, if necessary,…

Objective :  To promote assistance to migrant people, living in tents, in significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for free meals, moral and human support and, for some of them, a free legal assistance.  Location of the action : Quai d’Austerlitz, 75013 PARIS, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: May 12 2015 : Free provision of meals ; moral and human support to migrants of Chadian…

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…

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…