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…

Objective : To support homeless persons in NANTES, FRANCE. Location of the action: NANTES (« Pays de la Loire » region), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed :  March 2019 : Our N.G.O. sent out several Teams of volunteers in the area of NANTES, FRANCE to provide homeless persons with concrete food aid, to make them aware of their rights, to encourage…

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…

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…

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…

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 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….

✅ 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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

17 May 2018 : International Day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. ➡ 25 % of young persons who are homeless are identified as LGBTQI, including persons with XXY chromosomes, for whom our Association has developed a specific experience. ➡ Friendship, discussion, peace and housing are the best answers. ➡ Fundamental rights must be respected at all…

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…

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, 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…

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 : 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 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…

Objective : To support homeless persons in GRENOBLE, FRANCE. Location of the action : GRENOBLE, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : ✅ A OENDDF Mobile Team on patrol was in GRENOBLE to meet homeless persons and families of migrants, to discuss with them, to help them with food aid and to support them. ✅ We met especially young…

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 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…

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 European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights becomes a member of the « #ForAEuropeUnitedInSolidarity » Collective. ✅ In this Collective, 40 associations in charge of social exclusion and solidarity are united for the European elections of May 2019 in order to collectively carry a strong message in favor of a truly social Europe of solidarity and for fundamental…

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…

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 : Market of  TALENSAC, NANTES (44), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : August-September 2015 : Sending out a Team of volunteers of our Association each Sunday to organize a free distribution operation of meals to persons facing material and moral…

➡ 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…