Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons, through a free distribution of meals and a moral support. To restore the human dignity for homeless persons over the 2016 summer months. Location of the action : AIX-EN-PROVENCE (13), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : June 2016 : Our Association sent out a Team of volunteers to organize a free distribution operation of meals to persons…

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 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…

➡ 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…

✅ In France, in the Valley of the ROYA, Cédric Herrou has created the first farm Emmaüs Community, which employs and hosts migrant companions regardless of their administrative status, Emmaüs Roya, with 800 olive trees. Monthy wages :  350 € / month, with accommodation on site. ✅ Companions grow organic varieties of tomatoes, zucchini, squash, peppers, aubergine, basil…

 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…

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…

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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…

 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….

 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 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…

▶ 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,…

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…

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…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, Rom and Romanian persons, through the free provision of meals and housing aid, to encourage their professional integration and social promotion. Location of action : SAINT-HERBLAIN, Loire-Atlantique, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: February 2015 : The EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY FOR NON-DISCRIMINATION AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS has taken…

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 : CHARENTES MARITIMES department (17), LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : July 3-4-5 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association to organize a free distribution operation of meals to homeless persons in…

Objectif : favoriser l’assistance de personnes en situation de migration, telles que les personnes réfugiées et les demandeurs d’asile, en grande difficulté matérielle et morale : en leur distribuant gratuitement des repas ; en leur donnant un soutien moral et humain ;  pour ceux qui le demandent, en leur offrant une assistance juridique gratuite.  Lieu de l’action : Camp de…

Objective : To promote assistance to migrant persons, such as asylum-seeking refugees and unaccompanied migrant children, facing significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for : detailed information  to unaccompanied migrant children on children’ s rights moral and human support  detailed information on the best means to reach Sweden,  for those who requested it free legal assistance, on the asylum procedure in German law and European law, for those who requested…

✅ 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…

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…

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 ;…

COUNCIL OF EUROPE 🇪🇺. ✅ Here are the Members of the GRECO’ s Bureau, the Group of States against Corruption : ⁣⁣⁣ 📍 Marin MRČELA (Croatia) – President ⁣⁣⁣ 📍OnMonika OLSSON (Sweden) ⁣⁣⁣- Vice-President ⁣⁣⁣ 📍Helena LIŠUCHOVÁ (Czech Republic) ⁣⁣⁣ 📍AgiPanagiota VATIKALOU (Greece) ⁣⁣⁣ 📍LanAslan YUSUFOV (Russian Federation) ⁣⁣ 📍Vita HABJAN BARBORIČ (Slovenia) ⁣⁣ 📍Ernst GNÄGI…

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,…

✅ 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…

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…

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 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…