France Accepts the European Social Charter Applies to Overseas Territories

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Students sit aboard a school bus, in Kaweni, in the township of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on October 28, 2025. © 2025 Marine Gachet/AFP via Getty Images In March, France notified the Council of Europe it is extending to its overseas territories the obligations under the European Social Charter – a Council of Europe treaty guaranteeing fundamental social and economic rights.This long-overdue step ends a legal anomaly and structural injustice that excluded millions of people living within French jurisdiction, but in overseas territories.…

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