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  • Presentation
    • Who are we
    • Why do we exist
    • How do we work
    • What have we done
    • Who supports us
  • Structure
    • Board
    • Council of Representatives
    • Secretariat
  • Grants
    • Criteria
    • Urgent grants
    • Standard grants
    • Procedures
    • FAQ
  • Resources
    • Statutes
    • Internal policies
    • Annual Reports
    • External Evaluations
    • Studies
  • Partners
    • EuroMed Rights
    • Human Rights Funders Network
    • Ariadne
    • EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism
  • Recruitment
  • Highlights
    • Emerging
    • Innovation
    • Protection
Structure

Board

Board

The Board is the highest authority of the Foundation and is in charge of:

  • All decisions on grants
  • The implementation of the objectives and statutes of the Foundation.

The Board meets twice a year to develop an effective strategy to support human rights defenders and organisations in the South-Mediterranean region.

The Board consists of twelve members who provide broad representation in the decision-making while ensuring transparency and efficiency of the operations.

The Board members fulfil their functions on a voluntary basis and are nominated for a six-year term, renewable.

Current Members

President
Driss El Yazami

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Council in Morocco, former Member of the Moroccan Truth and Reconciliation Commission, member of the board of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration in France, Morocco.

Vice-President
Christine M. Merkel

Head of Department for Culture and Communication (Memory of the World), German Commission for UNESCO, Germany.

Treasurer
Kamel Jendoubi

Chairperson of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen, former Minister in charge of relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights, former President of the Independent Higher Electoral Commission (ISIE), member of the executive council of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), Tunisia.

Ordinary Members
Hanny Megally

Member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation focusing on violent extremism, human rights and rule of law, former Chief for Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), former Member of the Board of the Arab Human Rights Fund (AHRF), Egypt.

Bassma Kodmani

Academic Researcher, Co-founder and former Executive Director of Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), Associate Professor of International Relations at Paris University 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne and Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Syria.

Khémaïs Chammari

Former Tunisian Ambassador to UNESCO, former member of the Tunisian Parliament, Nuremberg Human Rights Prize Winner, Tunisia.

Bahey El Din Hassan

Co-founder and Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), recipient of the Annual Journalism Award from the Egyptian Press Syndicate in 1987 and Human Rights Watch’s Annual Award of Human Rights Monitor in 1993, Egypt.

Leila Rhiwi

Representative UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Maghreb, Morocco.

Lynn Welchman

Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), Advisory Board Member of the Arab Regional Office of the Open Society Foundations, member of the Board at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, member of the Founding Editorial Board, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, United Kingdom.

Souhayr Belhassan

Journalist and former President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), laureate of the Lysistrata Prize for the Promotion of Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Mediation,  Tunisia.

Marc Schade-Poulsen

PhD, Visiting Researcher at Roskilde University, former Executive Director of EuroMed Rights – the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Denmark.

Habib Nassar

Lawyer and Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch, former Acting Executive Director and Director for the Middle East and North Africa at PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law, Lebanon.

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About EMHRF

About EMHRF

The Foundation aims at providing flexible financial assistance to regional, national and local human rights NGOs and institutes as well as individuals who promote, support, protect and monitor the observance of human rights in the South-Mediterranean region.

Grants are allocated to human rights defenders in difficulty or at risk, for the specific purpose of allowing them to protect their safety and pursue their activities, as well as to small human rights organisations or groups with the aim of strengthening their operational capacities to implement innovative activities in the region.

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Highlights

  • EmergingA few examples… MOROCCO Seizing the opportunity offered by the new migration policy, a unique Platform composed of a dozen of newly registered migrants’ associations…May 23, 2018
  • InnovationA few examples… TUNISIA Based on the collection of almost a thousand photos and 800 videos by a group of civil society activists throughout Tunisia…May 23, 2018
  • ProtectionA few exemples… EGYPT Eight human rights NGOs have jointly received distinctly tailored security trainings and IT equipment aimed at mitigating threats and securing their…May 23, 2018

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