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The Learn2Volunteer mobile application, developed under the Erasmus+ funded Learn2Volunteer Reloaded project, offers young people an innovative digital space for volunteering, learning, and community engagement. Through interactive micro-learning modules, mentoring support, digital badges, and a GIS map of civic initiatives, the platform empowers youth to develop skills, access volunteering opportunities, and become active contributors to positive social change across the region.

إثر اختتام الجلسة العامة لمنتدى التضامن الإقليمي، وهو مساحة جماعيّة تضم فاعلين من المجتمع المدني من منطقة جنوب غرب آسيا وشمال أفريقيا، يجمعهم التزام سياسي وحقوقي عميق بالعدالة والكرامة والتحرر يؤكد المنتدى على أهمية التضامن كقيمة إنسانية وكأداة مقاومة أساسية لمواجهة التحديات الخطيرة التي تعرفها المنطقة على أكثر من مستوى.

In 2025, the MENA region faced overlapping crises including conflict, displacement, economic collapse, disease outbreaks, and climate shocks, placing children at risk and disrupting access to services.

Planting of the 2026 winter cereals started under dry weather conditions as the onset of seasonal rainfall was delayed until mid-December 2025.

At the crossroads of Africa and Europe, Tunisia is exposed to complex movement patterns involving refugees and migrants along the central Mediterranean route.

Middle East and North Africa offers a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of one of the world’s most complex and dynamic mobility landscapes where labour migration, protracted displacement, environmental stressors and socioeconomic transitions converge.

In alignment with its planned exit strategy, WFP has finalized the transfer of its programmes to integrate achievements realized during the 2022–2025 CSP into national systems, thereby supporting long-term development beyond WFP’s direct engagement.

7, 812 refugees and asylum seekers* are registered with UNHCR, most from countries affected by armed conflict and widespread violence.

إنَّ المنظّمات المُوقِّعة أدناه تُتابِعُ بقلقٍ بالغ التدهورَ السريع والخطير في مشهد الحرّيات العامّة في تونس. فقد شهدت تونس اعتبارًا من عام ٢٠٢١ - وبحِدّةٍ متزايدة منذ عام ٢٠٢٣ - حملات مُمَنْهَجَة تستهدف الأصوات المستقلّة، وتُقوِّض دور المجتمع المدني، وتُجرِّم جميع أشكال المُعارضة المدنية والسياسية.

The undersigned organisations are following with deep concern the rapid and alarming deterioration of the public freedoms landscape in Tunisia. Since 2021—and with increasing intensity since 2023—the country has witnessed systematic campaigns targeting independent voices, undermining the role of civil society, and criminalising all forms of civic and political opposition.

The Tunisian authorities have over the past three years increasingly dismantled protections for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, particularly Black people, with a dangerous shift towards racist policing and widespread human rights violations that endanger their lives, safety and dignity, Amnesty International said today.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life off the coast of Mahdia, Tunisia, where a boat carrying 70 migrants capsized shortly after departing the Tunisian village of Salakta. Forty people have died: nine women, 19 men, and 12 children under the age of five.

Commissioned by WFP's Tunisia Country Office, this report presents the findings of the Decentralized Evaluation (DE) of two of the primary activity areas of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Tunisia (2022–2025): Activity 1 on livelihoods support to smallholder farmers, and Activity 2 on technical assistance to national institutions.

The report highlights how gaps in legislation, institutional obstacles, digital divides and entrenched social norms can exclude women and girls. Based on desk research and case studies from three countries, the report reveals how legal, cultural and economic factors hinder access to civil registration and identity documents.

Food inflation eased in 2024 and 2025, reaching about 6 percent in July 2025. The year‑on‑year increase in July was driven by higher prices of fresh vegetables, ovine meat and fresh fruits, up 25.3, 19.1 and 15.1 percent, respectively.

UNOCHA reports that over 9.3 million children are expected to suffer from high levels of acute malnutrition between June 2024 and May 2025 in Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

The Erasmus+ project CINEMATOMEDIA: Teaching Democracy through Cinema is excited to announce its launch. This innovative project aims to empower youth organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by harnessing the power of cinema to foster political and democratic engagement among young people.

يسرّ المركز الدولي للعدالة الانتقالية الإعلان عن مسابقة "المتيقظون" الفنية، وهي عبارة عن دعوة مفتوحة للفنانين اللبنانيين والتونسيين، وكذلك الفنانين المقيمين في لبنان أو تونس، للخوض في موضوع "صوت معارضة الواقع". وستعرض المسابقة أعمال أولئك الذين يقومون بتوثيق وإحياء ذكرى قصص مجتمعاتهم خلال فترات عدم الاستقرار والمقاومة والتغيير.

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) is pleased to announce the “Wide Awake Art Contest,” an open call to Lebanese and Tunisian artists as well as artists living in Lebanon or Tunisia to explore the theme “the Sound of Dissent.” The contest will showcase works by those who are documenting and memorializing their communities’ stories in times of instability, resistance, and change.

بيروت، الإثنين ٢٥ تشرين الأول/أوكتوبر ٢٠٢١ - 

يسرّ فريق المركز الإعلان عن استمرار مركز دعم لبنان في عمله ومهمّته تحت اسمٍ جديد: مركز العلوم الاجتماعية للأبحاث التطبيقيّة.  

يأتي تغيير اسم المركز ليعكس بشكل أفضل عملَه المستمرّ الذي شهدَ توسُّعًا ونموًّا خلال ١٥ عامًا، بما يتماشى مع شعاره العلوم الاجتماعية من أجل التغيير من خلال الأبحاث التحويلية والتعاون. 

موقعنا متاح الآن على https://socialsciences-centre.org/ 

أُنشئ المركز في أعقاب الحرب الإسرائيلية على لبنان في تمّوز ٢۰۰٦ لتوثيق وتيسير مشاركة المعلومات وإدارتها، فضلًا عن تعزيز التعاون والشراكات بين مختلف الجهات الفاعلة في المجتمع المدني اللبناني...