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…

▶ Dematerialization of administrative procedures : in France, the Defender of Rights warns about the inequalities of access to public services. Digital exclusion undermines fundamental rights, such as access to minimum social benefits, access to Housing and access to justice. ▶ Fragile publics are concerned : persons who are homeless or in a precarious situation,…

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 ;…

BELGIUM, ALOST 🇧🇪 – CROATIA, RIJEKA 🇭🇷. ✅ Carnival has become a cultural pretext to display religious hatred and to violate Fundamental Rights. ✅ The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights strongly denounces and strongly condemns : ⁣ 📍this scene from the Alost Carnival, in Belgium, where their is a parade with costume of…

UGANDA. Persecutions of homosexual persons. ✅ The government of Uganda has announced its intention to impose the death penalty on homosexuals and people promoting homosexuality. ⁣⁣ ✅ This type of law criminalizing homosexuality is outrageous and in practice gives rise to hate crimes by homophobia.⁣ ⁣ ✅ Homosexuality is still misunderstood in a number of…

Objective : To look for warm and safe accommodation for homeless persons in ILE-DE-FRANCE. Location of the action : ILE-DE-FRANCE  – Suburbs of PARIS.  Means and resources deployed : December 2017 : Winter Patrols in the ILE-DE-FRANCE Region look for warm and safe accommodation for homeless persons, without waiting for the Plan « Great Cold » of the public authorities. 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 promotion. Means and resources deployed: April 2015 : Purchase of a humanitarian vehicle, a CITROEN JUMPY II vehicle, and of kitchen utensils, to provide for free meals to persons experiencing material and moral difficulties, in the…

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 : NANTES (Loire-Atlantique), FRANCE. June 2015: implementation of an emergency housing activity in a hotel structure for homeless persons. Quentin is 21 years…

 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….

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 the field of ​​Gender Equality, and based on statistics indicating that more than one billion girls worldwide do not have the same rights as boys, we published on Twitter (@europeanobs) information on the need for education for Gender Equality : Égalité hommes-femmes et égalité filles-garçons : la discrimination sur ces droits reste tenace dans…

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…

FRANCE : The European Observatory for Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights (in abbreviated : « OENDDF ») was heard on April 6, 2018 by the National Consultative Committee of Ethics (in abbreviated : « CCNE »), within the framework of the National Consultations on Bioethics, in FRANCE. ➡ These hearings in PARIS are part of a whole system deployed by…

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…

Objectif : favoriser l’assistance de personnes en situation de migration, telles que les personnes réfugiées et les demandeurs d’asile, en grande difficulté matérielle et morale : en leur distribuant gratuitement des repas ; en leur donnant un soutien moral et humain ;  pour ceux qui le demandent, en leur offrant une assistance juridique gratuite.  Lieu de l’action : Camp de…

✅ 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…

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…

✅ 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…

▶ 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…

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)…

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…

✅ The European Observatory on Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights was the driving force behind the creation of the African Observatory of Civic Freedoms and Fundamental Rights, with a view to federating a group of Associations in charge of solidarity and insecurity, the challenges faced Africa.  ✅ The European Observatory on Non-Discrimination and Fundamental Rights notably assisted…

➡ 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: 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 promotion. Location of the action : PARIS, 14°, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed: May 11/ 12 2015 : We met Didier, who is a homeless person. He was sleeping down in…

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…

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.  …

Access to justice for all those who are victims of trafficking in human beings must be a priority of the Member States of the European Union. 1. EU POLICY On the 10th october 2016, the European Commission reports on Member States measures to combat trafficking in human beings The European Commission has adopted today two…

FRANCE 🇫🇷. ▶ Isolated foreign minor children : bone tests are reliable only when these children are far from their majority. ▶ Try to objectify the chronological age of an isolated minor child, by using a scientific criterion or a statistical criterion based on different populations from North America or from Europe, and without taking into…

▶️ Surrogacy is a reduction to slavery. ▶️ Women’s bodies are not for sale. ▶️ The industry based on trafficking in human beings is a criminal offense. This article is an extract from the Collective for the respect of the person (CoRP), collectif-corp.com :   » Mesopotamia. The return. The first known historical occurrence of a form of surrogacy is a Mesopotamian…