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…

Current European Union legislative instruments on Data Protection.  1. European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights recognise respect for private life and protection of personal data as closely related but separate fundamental rights. The Charter is integrated into the Lisbon Treaty and is legally binding on the…

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…

FRANCE 🇫🇷, NANTES. ✅ Pioneer and dynamic, the City of NANTES will transform into a “giant vegetable garden” to give vegetables to families in need, following the COVID-19 epidemic. ✅ With Operation « Nourishing landscapes », 25,000 m2 of land will be cultivated. Vegetables will replace flowers and green spaces will become vegetable gardens. This new experience…

FRANCE, LA ROCHELLE 🇫🇷. ✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights is on the ground and in action: we help those who are forgotten, by joining them where they are, whatever their social situation may be, in the streets. ✅ Hereby you will find some pictures of street patrols mission, to help homeless persons….

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 : PYRENEES ORIENTALES department (66), PERPIGNAN, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : September 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association to organize a free distribution operation of meals to homeless persons in PERPIGNAN (66, 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,…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ▶ Isolated foreign minor children : bone tests are reliable only when these children are far from their majority. ▶ Try to objectify the chronological age of an isolated minor child, by using a scientific criterion or a statistical criterion based on different populations from North America or from Europe, and without taking into…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

✅ TURNAROUND : World Health Organisation has urged political leaders around the world to stop using containment as a primary method of control against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. ✅ The economic and social damage linked to containment policies is indeed considerable. ✅ “This is indeed a terrible and appalling global disaster,” said Dr NABARRO, WHO Special Envoy…

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….

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 in emergency, with food aid and a material and human assistance, 2 persons living in a squat – Homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of PERPIGNAN, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : October 2016 : the OENDDF Association sends out one of its Teams of volunteers, in an emergency case, to help, with food aid and a material…

GERMANY 🇩🇪.⁣ ✅ The City of BERLIN becomes a pioneer by enacting an anti-discrimination law relating to public officials. ✅ The Police are directly concerned in the fight against discrimination linked to race.⁣ ✅ Some Police Unions are outraged at « widespread suspicion » against the Police. ⁣ One provision particularly irritates opponents of the new system…

Libya: Migrants have always been victims of rape in Libya both in official detention centers and in clandestine centers. Migrants have always been victims of rape in Libya in both official and clandestine detention centers. What has changed today is that we know it, whereas five years ago, public opinion was not ready to hear…

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…

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…

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…

Objective: Encouraging the professional integration of people suffering physical, mental or psychological disability within society, and their social promotion.  Location of action : NANTES, Loire-Atlantique, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: Personalised assistance and support for specific disabled persons with a view to facilitating their professional integration within society through employment in addition to their social promotion….

In June 2019, the O.E.N.D.D.F. has published a new Study on the consequences of Surrogacy, for Indian surrogate mothers, proving women’s sufferings & violations of their Fundamental Rights, on the basis of 45 cases of Surrogacy in INDIA. This Study with almost 220 pages was conducted in the field by Dr. Sheela SARAVANAN, an Indian researcher with a Doctorate…

▶ 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…