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…

Safeguarding fundamental rights in today’s information society is a key issue for the European Union and its Member States, as more and more people use information and communications technologies (ICT) in their daily lives at work and at home. As the European Agency for fundamental Rights explains pertinently : « However, this growing use of ICT…

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 of Roma and Romanian persons, and their 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 children. To promote children’s rights and their right to education. Location of the…

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…

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…

✅ 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…

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…

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 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…

▶ 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…

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 encourage housing actions of homeless persons in flats from the private housing stock and to promote their social integration.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of NANTES (Budapest Street), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : February-July 2016 : During the 2016 winter, sending out one of our Teams of volunteers of our Association, in emergency cases, to seek for emergency accomodation for…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.  …

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….

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…

Objective : To support collective actions against homelessness.  Location of the action : PARIS, PALAIS-ROYAL, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (E.O.N.D.F.R.) supports the French  » Collectif des Morts de la Rue  » : an artificial cemetery for homeless people who died in 2016 was created at Place du Palais-Royal in PARIS. This…

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…