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…

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…

➡ Across the European Union, people face hatred because of their skin colour, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexuality. In response, the European Union and its Member States have introduced laws against hate crime and support services for victims. But these will only fulfil their potential : if victims report hate-motivated harassment and violence to the police,…

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

✅ 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…

Homeless Veterans, in the United States – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. ➡ The US National Coalition for Homeless Veterans estimates that on any given night, 200.000 veterans are homeless and 400.000 veterans will experience homeless during the course or a year. ➡ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD on the right picture – combined with a lack…

UNION EUROPEENNE 🇪🇺. ✅ 17 mai 2020 : la Journée internationale contre l’homophobie et la transphobie vise à promouvoir des actions de sensibilisation et de prévention pour lutter contre la lesbophobie, la gayphobie, la biphobie et la transphobie. ✅ Le siège de Bruxelles de l’Union Européenne s’est illuminé pour célébrer notre diversité et nos valeurs….

SUDAN 🇸🇩. ✅ The Sovereign Council, the highest ruling body in Sudan, approved on July 10, 2020 a law penalizing female genital mutilation, an ancestral practice which remains widespread in the country. ✅ This High Authority, made up of civil citizens, including women, and of military citizens, has enacted a series of laws, including that…

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 : 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, 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’…

FRANCE 🇫🇷.  ✅ The Metropolis of LYON has voted the “RSJ”, the Youth Solidarity Income, for young people aged 18 to 24: 2,000 people could benefit from it. ✅ The Metropolis of LYON has 59 municipalities and 1.4 million inhabitants. ✅  The « RSJ » for a dignity of life, especially for those who have left the school…

SUDAN 🇸🇩. ✅ The Sovereign Council, the highest ruling body in Sudan, approved on July 10, 2020 a law penalizing female genital mutilation, an ancestral practice which remains widespread in the country. ✅ This High Authority, made up of civil citizens, including women, and of military citizens, has enacted a series of laws, including that…

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…

✅ 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

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…

Homeless Veterans, in the United States – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. ➡ The US National Coalition for Homeless Veterans estimates that on any given night, 200.000 veterans are homeless and 400.000 veterans will experience homeless during the course or a year. ➡ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD on the right picture – combined with a lack…

Objective : To help all the homeless persons in the streets of NANTES (FRANCE) during Christmas period.  Means and resources deployed : December 2016 : thanks to his field of expertise in social exclusion, the OENDDF Association has developed a partenership with the UCPUC Association to meet homeless persons in the streets of NANTES during Christmas period, to offer warm clothes, to…

✅ March 8, 2021 is Women’s Rights Day for: ♦ ️Women’s leadership ♦ ️The end of violence ♦     Equal pay ♦ ️Sharing of domestic work ♦ ️The end of discrimination ♦ ️Sustainable peace ✅ Civil society, private sector, Governments, Associations and NGOs: let’s redouble our efforts to change mentalities and support women and…

Our Association collects good practices to improve the reporting and the recording of Access to Justice in the Member States of the European Union, especially for children, homeless persons, migrants or disabled persons. The cooperation between Associations and NGOs can be highly useful. If you are an Association, a Fundation or a NGO, and if…

Objective : To encourage the integration of persons facing material and moral difficulties, through the free provision of meals and and needs evaluation on the spot by a person trained in addictology. Location of the action : HAUTES-PYRENEES department (65), FRANCE. Means and resources deployed : May 22-23-24 2015 : Sending a Team of volunteers of our Association…

✅ 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 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…

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 : 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…

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…

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…