Historical Organization
Ligue des droits de l’homme
Ligue des droits de l’homme
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Organization Timeline
Undocumented workers occupy the National Museum of Immigration
📅 7 October 2010Around 500 undocumented workers occupied the entrance hall and steps of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris. They demanded that authorities honor commitments to regularize...
LDH and CCIF win suspension of a municipal burkini ban
📅 26 August 2016France’s Conseil d’État suspended Villeneuve-Loubet’s beach-clothing order following challenges by the Ligue des droits de l’homme and Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France. It found...
Bure opponents hold a “Zombie Walk” against Cigéo
📅 15 August 2017A protest in Bure, framed by participants as a “Zombie Walk,” proceeds despite a ban. Police use force; one marcher suffers a severe injury from a GLI-F4 grenade, according to the League of Human...
Police search homes and activist spaces in Bure investigation
📅 20 September 2017A series of searches takes place in an investigation targeting opponents of Cigéo. The LDH later documents searches, surveillance and judicial restrictions as part of a wider pattern of pressure on...
Authorities restrict a planned anti-Cigéo gathering
📅 3 March 2018A gathering in support of opponents of Cigéo faces police restrictions and force after the February eviction. The episode raises questions about public assembly and policing in a sparsely populated...
Journalists and rights groups protest the Global Security bill
📅 21 November 2020Journalists, press unions, civil-liberties organizations and other demonstrators gathered in Paris as opposition mounted to the proposed Global Security law. Critics focused on restrictions...
National “Marches des libertés” oppose the Global Security bill
📅 28 November 2020A national day of marches drew press unions, human-rights groups and residents opposing the bill’s restrictions on recording police and its expanded surveillance provisions. The Interior Ministry...
Further marches challenge police violence and security legislation
📅 5 December 2020Demonstrations continued after the 28 November mobilization, joining opposition to the security bill with anger over police violence and demands for accountability. Protesters argued that the right to...
January marches renew opposition to the Global Security bill
📅 16 January 2021A new national day of mobilization kept pressure on the proposed law after revisions failed to address demonstrators’ central concerns. Police and organizer estimates diverged sharply, reflecting...
Anti-racism gathering in Paris after Trappes attack
📅 26 October 2026The CGT finance-sector union called a gathering at Place Stalingrad in Paris at 19:00 on 26 October following the racist shooting in Trappes and La Verrière. The French Human Rights League also called...