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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…

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…

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…

✅ 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…

✅ CORONAVIRUS – COVID 19. The health crisis could push an additional 100 million people into extreme poverty around the world, even more than the amount previously estimated, because of the Covid-19, warned the President of the World Bank, David MALPASS. ✅ This makes it “imperative” for creditors to reduce the debt of poor countries, said…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

World Day Against Child Labor. Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment. Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour; almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour. In absolute terms, almost half of child labour (72.1 million) is to be found in Africa; 62.1 million…

World Day Against Child Labor. Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment. Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour; almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour. In absolute terms, almost half of child labour (72.1 million) is to be found in Africa; 62.1 million…

✅ 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 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….

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 : PERPIGNAN, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : December 2017 : one of the OENDDF Mobile Team on patrol was in PERPIGNAN to support homeless persons and socially isolated persons, with food aid, together with the very dynamic local Association « ATOME DE BIENFAISANCE ». Creation…

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…

➡ 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…

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 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…

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 the initiative to support…

27 September 2017 : The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a Global Charter to support business in the fight against discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQ) in the workplace. 1/ Facts : High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called on the private…

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…