Human rights in France
France signed and ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 as well as all Geneva Conventions.
Historically, before its repeal under François Mitterrand in the early 1980s, the ORTF had a significant influence on the mass media.
In April 2004, the ECHR condemned the Government for "inhumane and degrading treatments" in the 1997 case of a teenager beaten while in police custody.
[7][8] On 2 December 2020, the French government dissolved the ‘Collective Against Islamophobia in France’ (CCIF), an NGO that combats discrimination against Muslims.
[9] The "idéal républicain" (republican ideal) intends to achieve equality in rights between French citizens.
This has led to some debate over the decline of indigenous minority languages and identity in the French Republic.
[11] In May 2019, "inhumane treatment" by France towards the children of French citizens affiliated with Islamic State jihadists stranded in Syria highlighted that Paris was flouting its UN Convention on the Rights of the Child obligations.
[12] Before the Revolution, Standard French (a dialect of Langue d'Oïl) was spoken in only slightly more than half of the territory of France.
Promotion of a local language or culture has finally been allowed, but under severe restrictions which effectively make it difficult to publish, organize classes, or media broadcasts.
A less known discriminative law (ordonnance n°60-1245 on 1960, 25 November ) doubled penalty for indecent exposure in case of homosexual activity, between 1960 and 1980 (penal code article 330).
A bill granting same-sex couples the right to marry and jointly adopt children was adopted by the National Assembly on 18 May 2013 by Law 2013-404 Intersex people in France face significant gaps in protection from non-consensual medical interventions and protection from discrimination.
The end of communism and collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia has contributed to an increase in human trafficking, with the majority of victims being women forced into prostitution.
