Human Rights In France
The preamble of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, founded in 1958, recalls the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. France has also ratified the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the European Convention on Human Rights 1960 and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000). All these international law instruments takes precedent on national legislation. However, human rights abuses take place nevertheless. The most frequent cases are of police abuse, while France has also been condemned, both by French citizens and institutions and also by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for detention conditions in the penitentiary system. The state of detention centres for unauthorized migrants who have received an order of deportation has also been criticized.
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