Human rights & migration

WELFARE FROM AND FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS: BUILDING RESILIENCE AND TOLERANCE

As of mid-2022, there were a total of nearly 2.5 million refugees under the UNHCR’s mandate living in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2022, the highest number since 2017 when 4,255 deaths were recorded according to data from the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project (MMP).The MENA region accounted for more than half of the total 6,877 deaths recorded worldwide by the MMP, according to a new report.

Connexus believes that creating opportunities for migrants, enhancing diasporic networks and assuring intercultural understanding and communication fosters tolerance while sparking locally-based development solutions. That also integrates our emphasis in enhancing education for local resilience.

A glance at our programmes and joint initiatives…

Enhancing awareness about extremism and developing instrumental knowledge

Our experts from Connexus directly take action as on-ground pedagogical facilitators or work closely with local partners to outline learning tools and capacity-building programmes aimed at reflecting upon extremism and intolerance, as well as to subsidise other civic education initiatives and strengthen diaspora networks.

For this mission, we count, for instance, on the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH). As part of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, it integrates a global network of human rights organisations, whose impact spreads around plural streams of human rights incidence. LTDH implements its mandate under multiple initiatives around capacity-building, with a strong emphasis on women, youth, and vulnerable groups in the context of human rights education and strategic knowledge to face extremism.