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 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…

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…

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, 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’…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 sur la procédure d’asile, en…

▶️ 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 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…

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…

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…

✅ 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…

Objective: Encouraging the professional integration, the social promotion and an adequate housing of persons from ethnic and national minorities in the European Union. Means and resources deployed: Location of action : NANTES (Isle of NANTES), Loire-Atlantique, FRANCE. May 29/30 2015 : Specific assistance and support for persons from ethnic and national minorities with a view…

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 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…

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…

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…

Access to care for the poorest persons.  The Defender of Rights, Jacques Toubon, takes note with satisfaction of the Judgment of the Court of Cassation dated June 21, 2018 which states that the granting of a social benefit or a social right can not be subordinated to the production of a bank account statement (RIB)…

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 : Emergency humanitarian aid to homeless christian migrants, in SAINT-OUEN, PARIS-NORD, FRANCE. Location of the action : SAINT-OUEN, PARIS-NORD, FRANCE. Date : December 2019 Means and resources deployed : ✅ A OENDDF Mobile Team carried out a humanitarian mission in SAINT OUEN-PARIS NORD, to meet families of homeless migrants, of Christian faith, from Colombia…

✅ 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

✅ 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

1. STATE OF THE LAW. In 2013, the Council of Europe’s Bioethics Committee started to develop a new Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (EIS No. 164, adopted in 1997, better known as the « Convention of Oviedo « ). This Additional Protocol is a legal instrument  to protect the human rights and…