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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
    • Strategic Advisory Council
    • Honorary Members
    • Secretariat
  • Grants
    • Criteria
    • Urgent grants
    • Standard grants
    • Procedures
    • FAQ
  • Highlights
    • Emerging
    • Innovation
    • Protection
    • Resilience
  • Resources
    • Statutes
    • Internal policies
    • Annual Reports
    • External Evaluations
    • Studies
  • Partners
    • EuroMed Rights
    • Human Rights Funders Network
    • Ariadne
    • EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism
  • Recruitment
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
Kamel Jendoubi

Honorary President of EuroMed Rights, former Minister in charge of relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights 2015-2016, former President of the Independent Higher Electoral Commission (ISIE) 2011, former member of the executive board of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Tunisia.

Vice-President
Name

Description

Treasurer
Marc Schade-Poulsen

PhD in social anthropology, Visiting Researcher at Roskilde University, former Executive Director of EuroMed Rights, Denmark.

Ordinary Members
Ziad Abdeltawab

Executive Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and a member of the IFEX Council, Egypt.

Mariah Al Abdeh

Former Executive Director of Women Now for Development, Recipient of the Award of Feminine Success in France in 2016, Syria.

Saïd Benarbia

Jurist and Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Morocco.

Sara Guillet

Consultant in human rights project design, monitoring and evaluation, former Representative of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) to the United Nations in Geneva, France.

Brigitte Herremans

Postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University, studying the potential of literary writing to counter the erasure and invisibilisation of injustice and to ‘open up’ the imagination of justice, Belgium.

Malek Kefif

Member of the National Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking in Tunisia, former Member of the High Council for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 2012-2014, former Member of the Executive Committee of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) 2015-2018 and founding member of the association Amal for the family and the child, Tunisia.

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), Egypt.

Habib Nassar

Lawyer and Senior Human Rights Officer at the Independent Institution for Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic, former Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch, Lebanon.

Leila Rhiwi

Former Representative UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Maghreb, former President of the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women (ADFM), Morocco.

Lynn Welchman

Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), Member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, member of the Board at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, United Kingdom.

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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 support defenders and NGOs that are at risk or facing difficulties, and NGOs that carry out innovative, sensitive initiatives, aim to develop women and youth’s leadership, and operate in remote regions.

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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 Thanks to the collection of digital archives by a group of civil society activists across Tunisia during the period 2016-2018, an…May 23, 2018
  • ProtectionA few examples… 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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