▶️ In Rouen (FRANCE), yellow luggage lockers with a key are made available to homeless persons who can store their bags and papers. ▶️ These lockers are distributed in six locations in the city, which are subject to video surveillance. Each individual compartment will obviously be locked and will be allocated to one person for…

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…

Who are the Refugees ?  The rights of third-country nationals entering or staying in the European Union are often not respected. This is sometimes because of : insufficient implementation of legislation ; poor knowledge of fundamental rights ;  inadequately trained civil servants ; and sometimes simply due to discrimination and xenophobia. Picture below : the…

▶ 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…

✅ In France, Government face to 70 murders of women, by their husbands, known as feminicides,  since the 1st January 2019. ✅ The minimisation of violence due to « parental conflict » with children, the lack of training of police services and the lack of an emergency protection order contribute to this situation. Learn more :www.LeParisien.fr. Murders of women. 29-06-2019

World Refugee Day is celebrated every year on 20 June, following the adoption of resolution 55/76 of the General Assembly of the UN on December 4, 2000. On June 20, coinciding with the adoption of the Convention 1951 relating to the status of refugees. As pointed out by UNICEF – FRANCE : « By signing the…

Objective : To carry out a european campaign against hate crime and for access to justice for all.  Location of the action : European Union.  Means and resources deployed : During the year 2016 : Our Association has started a European campaign against hate crime and for access to justice, with posters recalling the importance of the European…

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…

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…

Objective : To encourage the integration of homeless persons, through free distributions of meals, and to raise awareness about social exclusion.  Location of the action : DOWNTOWN OF LISBON, PORTUGAL. Means and resources deployed : May 2016 : The objectives of our Association were as following : to create contacts or partnerships with local Associations to implement a global approach of homeless persons (meals, housing,…

1/ The European Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out the basic rights that must be respected both by the European Union and the Member States when implementing EU law. The European Charter of Fundamental Rights is a legally binding instrument that was drawn up in order to expressly recognise, and give visibility to, the role…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Objective : To help in emergency, with food aid and a material and human assistance, 2 persons living in a squat – Homeless persons. Location of the action : DOWNTOWN of PERPIGNAN, FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : October 2016 : the OENDDF Association sends out one of its Teams of volunteers, in an emergency case, to help, with food aid and a material…

Who are the Refugees ?  The rights of third-country nationals entering or staying in the European Union are often not respected. This is sometimes because of : insufficient implementation of legislation ; poor knowledge of fundamental rights ;  inadequately trained civil servants ; and sometimes simply due to discrimination and xenophobia. Picture below : the…

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…

✅ 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…

✅ In France, Government face to 70 murders of women, by their husbands, known as feminicides,  since the 1st January 2019. ✅ The minimisation of violence due to « parental conflict » with children, the lack of training of police services and the lack of an emergency protection order contribute to this situation. Learn more :www.LeParisien.fr. Murders of women. 29-06-2019

FRANCE, PARIS 🇫🇷 ✅ “Sleep merchants”: on March 10, 2021, the Correctional Court of Paris handed down prison sentences against two sleep merchants, one conditional sentence of imprisonment, and one sentence of 3 years’imprisonment,  with immediate implementation, which is an extremely rare thing. The State Prosecutor had asked for the exceptional sentence up to four years’…

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…

Brunei 🇧🇳.  ✅ L’acteur George Clooney appelle au boycott des hôtels liés au sultan de Brunei pour dénoncer les persécutions contre les personnes homosexuelles par la charia et par le fouet.  La nouvelle législation de Brunei, situé sur l’île de Bornéo, prévoit aussi la peine de mort en cas d’adultère et l’amputation d’une main ou…

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…

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…

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…

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…