After six years in office, Jacques Toubon, who was notably Minister of Justice from 1995 to 1997, must leave his position as Defender of Rights at the end of July. Emmanuel Macron advances this Tuesday evening the name of his successor, and it should be a woman: Claire Hédon, 57 years old and director since 2015 of the association ATD-Fourth World which fights against extreme poverty.
"The President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate are seized of this appointment project, so that the committee concerned in each of the assemblies decides" as provided for by the Constitution, adds the Elysee in a press release.
Former radio journalist (RFI, France inter), she is also a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee since 2017. Claire Hédon had welcomed Emmanuel Macron for several hours in an ATD-Fourth World center in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine -Saint-Denis) in September 2018, on the sidelines of the presentation of the government's poverty reduction strategy.
All-out discrimination
If her appointment was well ratified, her mission will be in particular to defend rights and freedoms in the context of relations with administrations, fight against discrimination or even ensure compliance with ethics by people carrying out security activities.
Fields on which Jacques Toubon was particularly critical in his reports, starting with the latest dated last week. He thus pinpointed "the inadequacy of public policies" on the issues of discrimination in employment, housing, education and police checks, and called for the creation of an "observatory".
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"A few penknife shots have been taken to our rights", deplores Jacques Toubon, the Defender of Rights
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