Call for applications - 2025 Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders [fr]

The Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders aims to better help Human Rights Defenders in their fight (www.initiativemarianne.fr/en/). The hosting programme in France provides for individual accommodation near Paris, a monthly grant to cover daily needs, personalised support, and networking with Human Rights Defenders for a period of 6 months. The programme does not provide for a support beyond 6 months.

You are committed to the promotion and defence of human rights in your country:

• You are a human rights defender in the sense recognised by the United Nations (https://www.ohchr.org/fr/special-procedures/sr-human-rights-defenders/about-human-rights-defenders), adult and of non-French nationality, regardless of your placeof residence;

• You can provide document(s)/evidence, produced by others (recommendations, pressarticles, etc.), attesting to your commitment/action in favour of human rights;

• You can justify that participation in the Marianne Initiative’s French aid programmewill strengthen your capacity for human rights action in your country andinternationally, and that it will enable you to create or develop existing or planned linksor projects with French organisations;

• You have a valid passport (with a validity of at least six months) or you are willing to follow the procedures to obtain one;

• You are not subject to any legal ban on leaving the territory;

• You are willing to travel to France from January to July 2025.

You can apply online to be part of the 2025 class of the Marianne initiative through the link below:

Application form - Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders - Class of 2025 (January-July)

Applications do not need to be sent to the Embassy, but should be submitted directly using the procedure indicated above. However, if you have any questions, you may contact by email at: amelle.abdallahi@diplomatie.gouv.fr.

Your application will include the documents listed in the application form. It will be in French, English or Spanish.

The deadline for the application is 16th June 2024.