As a member of the Council of Europe, France recognises the competence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to receive petitions from individuals or States alleging violations of the human rights set out in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental freedoms signed on 4 November
As part of an ineffectual policy aimed at deterring long-term migrant encampments, authorities routinely subject migrant adults and children in Calais and nearby Grande-Synthe to degrading treatment, including evictions and near-daily police harassment, and restrict their access to food, water, and other essentials.
The Office Français de Protection des Réfugiés et Apatrides (OFPRA), founded in 1952, is “responsible for the implementation of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1954 New York Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.”