Middle East - North Africa
Crosscutting initiatives focused on exchanging knowledge and experience will therefore help to create a common understanding of human rights in the region.
With this in mind, the institute seeks to:
- Foster regional co-operation and mutual understanding;
- Develop capacities on human rights issues, which support national human rights reform processes;
- Facilitate participation and engagement in dialogue and research co-operation on human rights issues of common interest;
- Create public debate and inform the public about human rights issues.
The crosscutting activities involve partners representing government, state, academia, and civil society primarily from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. However, there is also co-operation with representatives from Lebanon, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories.
Our programme
Our aim is to enable a mixed group of Danish and MENA-based human rights actors to develop knowledge and analysis of human rights, and a platform of peers. They exchange experience, best practices, and knowledge of human rights issues of common interest. Hopefully, our human rights based dialogue and exchange will deepen the understanding, and promotion and protection of human rights both across the Middle East and North Africa and in Denmark.
Our work is concentrated within five key fields:
- Regional human rights course
- Research raising and seminar
- Awareness raising in Denmark
- Staff exchange
- Regional MA Programme in Democratic Governance