Rabee Karzoun, a young Lebanese film director, won the first prize (5,000 euros) in the Majalat video contest. His film Anahon gives voice to the people of Tripoli and the wider region, highlighting the country’s current unprecedented protest movement.

In a position paper released on November 29, Majalat examines the European Union’s response to the Lebanese uprisings and proposes policy recommendations for reform that should be promoted in the framework of the EU- Southern Neighborhood pa

The European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution on November 28, calling on the Algerian authorities to end the repression and move towards a democratic solution.The EP strongly condemns the arbitrary a

Some 35 participants from 8 countries in the southern Mediterranean region registered for the Majalat video contest "Zooming in on Civil Society." Nineteen young talents reached the final competition.

The Israeli Supreme Court on November 5, 2019 upheld the Israeli government’s authority to deport Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch.

Five national organizations from the Southern Mediterranean civil society are carrying out Majalat-funded projects this month following the call for projects launched last July.

Two prominent Moroccan human rights defenders have been targeted using surveillance technologies developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, reveals a new report released

European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has launched a call for tenders to collect data on the social networks of candidates for migration to Europe.

Since September 20, 2019, peaceful protests against rampant corruption have been repressed with an iron fist in Egypt.

In a context of increasing repression of peaceful demonstrations by Algerian security forces, hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested since early September, including many human rights defenders.

For Solidar, the renaming of the European Commissioner's portfolio, which now combines migration and "protection of the European way of life", amounts to unacceptably linking migration and security, as if they were two sides of the same coin.

A group of more than 100 Algerian intellectuals, including journalists, writers, academics, doctors and lawyers, issued a public appeal on 24 September for an immediate halt to the crackdown and arrests against activists and protesters, denouncing "a campaign of arrests again brutally and illegal