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Press Release From the Collective to Support Roma Families in the Plaine de Triel-Chanteloup

Press release from the Collective to support Roma families in the Plaine de Triel-Chanteloup supported by Droit au Logment, Human Rights League, Education Without Borders Network, Union Française des Associations Tziganes August 4, 2010 No evictions from the land or from the country. Restoration of social rights. We are speaking out against the declarations of the […]

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SNJ-CGT Press Release, International Federation and European Federation of Journalists

European journalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn of rising racism Like the SNJ-CGT, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (FEJ) condemn the repression launched by the French authorities against members of the Roma community, warning that this encourages xenophobia and intolerance. They also accuse the police of obstructing

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The Romani Union Portugal “Highly Concerned”

The Union Romani Portugal, which represents the Gypsy community in Portugal, claims today to be “perplexed” and “highly concerned” by the measures announced by the French government of Nicolas Sarkozy targeting the community in his country. The organization expresses, in a note sent to the LUSA news agency, that its members are “perplexed by the

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European Rally Against the Shame Directive

On May 20, 2008, the draft directive on the detention and expulsion of foreigners will be submitted to the European Parliament. This project, in the continuity of European policies on immigration focused solely on the security and repressive aspects, formalizes the disappearance of the fundamental principles of people. If adopted, this text would allow: the imprisonment

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Support the Struggle of Striking Undocumented Workers

Since April 15, more than three hundred undocumented workers have been on strike in Ile-de-France on a dozen different sites. Their one and only demand: regularization. They work in restaurants, hotels, construction, security, commerce or cleaning, that is to say in so-called “live” activities, thus likely to allow the issuance of residence permits. in application of

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UCIJ Condemns the Government Reform of Naturalization Procedures

Within the framework of a project to reform the methods of the administration in 96 measures, presented in a report by Eric Woerth, the Government announced, on December 12, 2007, its intention to entrust to the prefectures, not only the constitution of naturalization application files but also the responsibility to grant or refuse French nationality. Since

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Feminist Call For the April 5 Demonstration

French-Immigrants: equality and solidarity! France is those who live there Whatever our origin, our nationality, our skin color, with or without papers State xenophobia kills the rights of all Detention, arrests, increasingly numerous expulsion measures, restriction of visas, police border control, precariousness of immigrants, “solidarity offense”, registration of people who welcome foreigners … Feminists, fighting

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Appeal of the SAF and the SM to the Demonstration of April 5

Syndicat des Avocats de France Syndicat de la MagistratureNo to exceptional justice for foreigners Foreigners are no longer litigants like the others. Successive laws trample on the fundamental rights guaranteed to other citizens by the courts: the right to a fair trial, to the assistance of a lawyer and an interpreter, the right to an

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Call of Student and Youth Organizations for April 5

In recent years, laws have multiplied to close all avenues for regularization. The government has been at the initiative of four laws, multiple decrees, circulars and administrative decisions that call into question the rights of foreigners in our country: freedom to live with their family, freedom to study, to work and to exercise right of asylum. The government’s interventions

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