Upholding Migrants Rights in the Fight Against COVID-19

COVID-19 is an unprecedented situation that challenged governments in so many ways. Yet, the novel character of the current health crisis should not justify less human rights protection of migrants. Accordingly, People for Change is committed to analyse the ways migrants were affected by the covid-19 outbreak, socially, economically and legally. The goal of this project is to provide clear guidelines and principles that can help the government and local civil society organisations to ensure human rights protection of migrants, especially in these challenging times.

Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

Why and how do young people become, or not become radicalised (engaged in violent extremist ideologies and behaviours)? 

This is the question that the project DARE seeks to answer, by using innovative empirical research and investigate the new communicative channels and the factors that lead youngsters to develop radical ideas and eventually engage in violent behaviours. The reason why studying radicalisation is so important lays in the long-term dramatic consequences that such phenomena have on society and social behaviours. By contributing to interdisciplinary and empirical research out-puts within the DARE project, People for Change aims at providing the necessary tools to properly address the problem of radicalisation through policy-making and a dialogue on equality. 

Support and Advice Through Health System for Hate Crimes Victims (SHELTER) 

Hate crime is under-reported and the victims suffer the consequences of it, primarily with regard to health care access. Through the SHELTER project, the People for Change Foundation aims at raising awareness about hate crime. To this end, the project intends to facilitate the identification of victims of hate crime by health workers, by means of an an International Network of Healthcare Workers. It shall also be ensured that victims are supported by health care providers with medical and socio-psychological traits that are appropriate to the circumstances. 

National Coordination: European Website on Integration 

The European Website on Integration is a European Commission initiative gathering good practices of member states in the field of social integration of migrants. As the Malta's coordinator, the People for Change Foundation is tasked with the continuous update on the platform regarding news stories, policy initiatives, new legal instruments adopted, enforcement activities to improve the social integration of migrants in the Community.

FRANET National Focal point 

The people for Change Foundation is the National Focal point for the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union. Since 2011, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency investigates selected human rights issues in different member states through the research contribution of the National Focal Points. The research outputs are then employed to write comparative national reports.

Report Racism Malta

Since 2014, the People for Change Foundation has started the project Report Racism Malta to gather all occurrences of discriminatory and racist behaviours happening in Malta. The ensemble of collected empirical data is able to provide a clearer picture of what racism looks like in Malta and to raise awareness on areas of improvements. Additionally, PfC aims at supporting victims of racism to denounce the suffered crime as well as access eventual legal remedies.

Do you see yourself working at the people for Change Foundation? Are you driven to contribute to research projects in a think thank focused on human rights, non-discrimination and migrants' rights?