Once our trainees are selected, they will join the team of the organization, and they will have access to its office and facilities. Using the training-mentorship-production model adopted in our other crowdfunded project, We Are Not Numbers, our trainees will first receive one week of intensive training in each of the aforementioned areas.

Next, they will choose two human rights issues of particular interest to them, and they will spend two to three months researching each. This research will culminate in filling gaps of unawareness about under-reported human rights issues. During this period, they will be linked with human rights lawyers, mainly from Europe, who have special expertise in the trainees' chosen area of interest. These lawyers will supervise the trainees' research, providing advice both on meeting international standards and on choosing specific targets of advocacy.

Finally, the Euro-Med Monitor offices in Geneva and Gaza will coordinate for a general conference in which the research outcomes will be disseminated, and they will also be posted on the Euro-Med Monitor website.

During the closing ceremony of a course on human rights and new media

In Gaza, blockaded and suffocated, young activists have turned to social media to protest political, economic and social injustices. 

Some of these injustices are blatant violations of human rights norms, yet they are neither reported as such nor covered in-depth. Our project aims to help such youthful, aspiring defenders by equipping them with the skills, experiences and connections they need to advance their service goals.

With a soaring number of unemployed graduates (62% youth unemployment), volunteering opportunities have decreased drastically, further limiting professional development

Neither higher education institutions nor training centers in Gaza provide prospective human rights professionals with the research, reporting and communication skills necessary for distinguished service. The TMP-model project will not only bridge the gap between academic preparation and service requirements but also create a career opportunity otherwise hardly available.

Dr. Ramy Abdu, chair of Euro-Med Monitor, speaking to We Are Not Numbers members about the importance of youth contribution to societies

Growing more isolated and in more grave circumstances, Gaza has born a great deal of suffering and pain, resulted from gross, continuous violations. 

Unless exposed, especially by the directly affected category, i.e. youth, these violations will continue to live in the world's oblivion and limbo. The project will empower the youth in order to be able to defend their rights through field research and advocacy, two established ways of communication in the human rights field.

In July 2016, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor partnered with the University of Jordan to offer a summer school on compliance with international law during armed conflicts.

Following successful completion of this campaign, we will launch our project in November. 

To start with, we will recruit qualified senior students and recent graduates who are possessed of the following criteria: academic excellence, commitment to human rights advocacy, social media activism, among others. 

Based on our network, we will then recruit human rights lawyers, mainly from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Jordan,  to train and mentor these students 

Why We Need Your Help? 

In 2011, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor was established and has continued to be a youth-run organization. It has since relied on individual donations, voluntary contributions and crowdfunding as the sole sources of financing its operation and projects, and in maintaining this finance policy it has kept its impartiality and independence. Your donation is a demonstration of support to human rights, to youth and to impartiality.