« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
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…
✅ 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…
Homeless Veterans, in the United States – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. ➡ The US National Coalition for Homeless Veterans estimates that on any given night, 200.000 veterans are homeless and 400.000 veterans will experience homeless during the course or a year. ➡ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD on the right picture – combined with a lack…
Objective : To encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, especially young homeless people, 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 : LE MANS (SARTHE, 72), FRANCE. May 27 2015…
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…
PERSECUTION OF THE ROHINGYAS – PLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES The Rohingya minority is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya community is an unmistakable and serious breach of international Human Rights Laws. Successive Burmese military governments have since early 1970s viewed the Rohingya Muslim minority, who live on…
« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
17 Mai 2018 : Journée internationale contre l’homophobie, la transphobie et la biphobie. ➡ 25 % des jeunes qui sont sans-abri sont identifiés comme étant LGBTQI, ce qui inclut les personnes nées avec des chromosomes XXY, pour lesquelles notre Association a développé une expérience spécifique. ➡ L’amitié, la discussion, la paix et le logement sont les…
BURMA, RANGOUN ✅ « You can cut off all the flowers, but you can’t stop spring from coming. » ✅ This quote was written on April 11, 2021, on a banner displayed on a wall in Rangoun, Burma, to protest the military coup. In front of this banner, a child is playing with plastic pistols. ✅The author of…
BURMA, RANGOUN ✅ « You can cut off all the flowers, but you can’t stop spring from coming. » ✅ This quote was written on April 11, 2021, on a banner displayed on a wall in Rangoun, Burma, to protest the military coup. In front of this banner, a child is playing with plastic pistols. ✅The author of…
Objective : To promote assistance to migrant people, living in tents or in very precarious conditions, in significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for free meals, moral and human support. Location of the action : CALAIS, PAS-DE-CALAIS (62), FRANCE. In a few years, the City of CALAIS has become a significant international migration platform. A team of volunteers of the European…
Objective : Encourage the integration of persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, through the free provision of meals and housing aid, to encourage their professional integration and social inclusion. Means and resources deployed : Closer working relationships and partnerships with the Associations of the European Union to support joint projects focusing on professional integration and inclusion of homeless people. April…
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…
« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
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 encourage the integration of persons facing material and moral difficulties, through the free provision of meals and and needs evaluation on the spot by a person trained in addictology. Location of the action : HAUTES-PYRENEES department (65), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : May 22-23-24 2015 : Sending a Team of volunteers of our Association…
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…
Qui sont les Réfugiés ? Les ressortissants de pays tiers qui entrent ou séjournent dans l’Union Européenne voient souvent leurs droits bafoués. Plusieurs causes peuvent être invoquées : mise en œuvre insuffisante de la législation ; méconnaissance des droits fondamentaux ; formation inadéquate des fonctionnaires ; et parfois discrimination et xénophobie. Image ci-dessous : les…
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’…
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…
« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
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…
✅ In France, Government face to 70 murders of women, by their husbands, known as feminicides, since the 1st January 2019. ✅ The minimisation of violence due to « parental conflict » with children, the lack of training of police services and the lack of an emergency protection order contribute to this situation. Learn more :www.LeParisien.fr. Murders of women. 29-06-2019
Objective : to provide assistance to asylum seekers and unaccompanied migrant children, facing significant material and moral difficulty, by providing for : free meals ; French classes ; detailed information to unaccompanied migrant children on children’ s rights ; material support ; emotional support. Location of the action : NANTES, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: From December 2017 to March 2018 : OENDDF Mobile Teams on patrol…
Objective : To carry out a european campaign against hate crime and for access to justice for all. Location of the action : European Union. Means and resources deployed : During the year 2016 : Our Association has started a European campaign against hate crime and for access to justice, with posters recalling the importance of the European…
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…
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….
« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
▶ The painful journey of pregnant homeless women in the street. « The 115 for cradle? » With this question, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation warns the public authorities and denounces, in its 21st report devoted to poor housing in France, the situation of many pregnant and precarious women in France. « We regret the lack of follow-up upstream of…
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…
In the field of fight against extreme poverty, social exclusion, and homelessness, in France, we have published on social networks a lot of various information on : digital exclusion of precarious persons, the link between the housing crisis and the emergency accommodation crisis, the need to prioritize the prevention and reduction of social inequalities 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 : 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…
United States 🇺🇸. ✅ 20 US States want to oppose the indefinite detention of Migrant Children required by the US Federal Administration. 20 US states want to oppose unrestricted detention required by the US Homeland Security Department. This US Department wants to end a 1997 Court Judgment, called « FLORES, » requiring federal authorities not to detain children…
« Le droit à la vie privée et la protection des données sont des droits de l’homme essentiels pour vivre dignement et en sécurité.
Les législations sur la surveillance et la collecte de données doivent prévoir des garanties contre l’ingérence arbitraire et le contrôle démocratique des services de sécurité ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – Commissaire européen aux droits de l’homme du Conseil de l’Europe
Sources : coe.int
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 help homeless persons and socially isolated persons with food aid. Location of the action : NANTES, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : From December 2017 to March 2018 : OENDDF Mobile Teams on patrol were in NANTES to support homeless persons and very socially isolated persons, with food aid. Creation of social link and relationships…
✅ In Africa, BOTSWANA decriminalizes homosexuality and thus fights the frequent physical violence against LGBTQI persons in this country. ✅ Since 1965, same-sex relationships in Botswana have been punishable by up to 7 years in prison. The country’s High Court ended this on Tuesday 11 June 2019. An anonymous person, whose initials LM is known, was behind…
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 : To carry out a european campaign against hate crime and for access to justice for all. Location of the action : European Union. Means and resources deployed : During the year 2016 : Our Association has started a European campaign against hate crime and for access to justice, with posters recalling the importance of the European…
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…
« The right to privacy and the protection of data are essential human rights to live in dignity and security.
Legislation on surveillance and data collection should provide guarantees against arbitrary interference and democratic control of the security services ».
#DataProtectionDay
Nils Muiznieks – European Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Learn more : coe.int
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…
2018 – Burial of the right of asylum in France. « Project of law for controlled immigration and an effective right of asylum » : lowering the deadline for applying for asylum ; non-effective legal remedy to the National Court of Asylum : uncertain notifications of Court Judgments and uncertainties of so-called « safe Countries » ; videoconferencing without a…
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…
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…
▶ 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…
