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…

Objective : To help very isolated homeless persons in emergency, during cold nights of december, when the emergency number 115 is saturated. Location of the action : PARIS, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : Mobile Team on patrol, in PARIS, to support very isolated homeless persons, during cold nights of december, with food aid…

✅ 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…

We published news on Twitter to further combat the « culture of rape » : Le Royaume-Uni lutte contre la culture du viol et lance une campagne-choc pour plus de plaintes. #cultureduviol https://t.co/HpOz1J101y — O.E.N.D.D.F. (ONG) (@europeanobs) November 3, 2017 Avis de 2016 du HCE pour une juste condamnation sociétale et judiciaire du viol et d’autres agressions…

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: 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…

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…

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…

The CoRP (The Collective for the Respect of the Person) fights actively all forms of surrogacy and misconceptions about surrogacy. Surrogacy can not be ethical. Learn more : CoRP : misconceptions on surrogacy. « 1. Examples of GPA can be found in the Bible. False: All examples used to suggest that women mentioned in the Bible would…

✅ 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…

Objective : To help all the homeless persons in the streets of NANTES (FRANCE) during Christmas period.  Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : thanks to his field of expertise in social exclusion, the OENDDF Association has developed a partenership with the UCPUC Association to meet homeless persons in the streets of NANTES during Christmas period, to offer warm clothes, to…

In the field of ​​children’s rights and unaccompanied minors, we have published on Twitter information on the fact that an unaccompanied minor is above all a child and that the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989 (sources : CRC.aspx) applies :  Mineurs isolés et Convention des droits de l’Enfant : un mineur étranger…

CAMBODIA.  ▶ Justice in this country fights against the proliferation of children trafficking since the Surrogacy-based reproductive industry has elected it as a host country. ▶ According to a Police Report, 32 women were hired by the leaders of this ring, who promised a sum of $10,000 / baby, to carry and to sell their…

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…

This Report is part of IOM‘s implementation of two separate but complementary projects : the CARE project (Coordinated Approach for the Reintegration of Victims of Trafficking who voluntarily return to a third country) and the TACT project (Action Transnational – Safe and dignified return and reintegration of victims of trafficking who voluntarily return to three…

✅ En Afrique, le BOTSWANA décriminalise l’homosexualité et combat ainsi les violences physiques fréquentes dans ce pays à l’égard des personnes LGBTQI. ✅ Depuis 1965, les relations entre personnes du même sexe étaient passibles, au Botswana, de peines de prison pouvant aller jusqu’à 7 ans. La Haute Cour du pays a mis fin à cela le 11 Juin 2019….

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…

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,…

➡ Across the European Union, people face hatred because of their skin colour, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexuality. In response, the European Union and its Member States have introduced laws against hate crime and support services for victims. But these will only fulfil their potential : if victims report hate-motivated harassment and violence to the police,…

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…

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…

Access to Justice : founded in February 2017, the French HANDILEX Network brings together Lawyers and Experts around a mission : to help persons with disabilities to enforce their rights. Actually, its mission is to relieve persons with disabilities and those around them from the administrative and legal disability management, from their accident, so that they…

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…

Objective : To encourage the integration of of Roma and Romanian persons, and their young children, living in extreme material and moral difficulties in FRANCE. To provide for free distribution of meals and moral support. To restore the human dignity of Roma and Romanian persons, with their young children. To promote children’s rights and their right to education. Location…

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…

Our Association collects good practices to improve the reporting and the recording of Access to Justice in the Member States of the European Union, especially for children, homeless persons, migrants or disabled persons. The cooperation between Associations and NGOs can be highly useful. If you are an Association, a Fundation or a NGO, and if…

Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons, through free distributions of meals and a social support. To restore the human dignity of homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF NANTES (44) AND ANGERS (49), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : February-March 2016 : We provided social support and free distribution operations of meals through our outreach teams, our day-time and night-time…

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…

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)…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ✅ The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against FRANCE for the  » inhuman living conditions  » of asylum seekers and for its lack of assistance to these asylum seekers, forced to live “on the street” and « deprived of means of subsistence ». ✅ The European Court also observed that the three exiled…

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 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…

▶ In France, faced with hatred against homosexual persons on the Web, the Gay-friendly Lawyers Network, Stop Homophobie Association and Mousse Association decided to join forces to stop impunity on social Networks, especially on Twitter. ▶  200 criminal complaints were filed on January 17, 2019 by 20 Lawyers in 12 French Courts. Learn more : Hate against…

▶ Mickey MEJI founded in South Africa the abolitionist movement of women survivors of prostitution « KWANELE ». ▶ Having experienced prostitution for 9 years, she has especially campaigned with the sex work Lobby before becoming an abolitionist.  ▶ Today, she fights for the voices of the survivors (700) and their true wishes for their future. ▶…

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.  …

« 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 help all the homeless persons in the streets of NANTES (FRANCE) during Christmas period.  Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : thanks to his field of expertise in social exclusion, the OENDDF Association has developed a partenership with the UCPUC Association to meet homeless persons in the streets of NANTES during Christmas period, to offer warm clothes, to…

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 integration of homeless persons and persons facing material and moral difficulties, through the free distribution of meals and a moral support. Location of the action : Market of  TALENSAC, NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : July – August 2016 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association each Sunday to organize a free distribution operation…

➡ Across the European Union, people face hatred because of their skin colour, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexuality. In response, the European Union and its Member States have introduced laws against hate crime and support services for victims. But these will only fulfil their potential : if victims report hate-motivated harassment and violence to the police,…