The Migration Media Award (MMA) recognizes and rewards the journalistic excellence, relevance and newsworthiness of press pieces dealing with migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region in all its aspects. For its first edition in 2017, the MMA rewarded 35 journalists based in an EU country or a Southern Partner Country (SPC) and 41 in 2018, and had their winning stories published on www.migration-media-award.eu.
The Refugee Brief, UNHCR’s daily news digest, shares top refugee stories and highlights some of the best refugee-related reporting, analysis, and videos from across the web in a concise format. The Brief also includes a "Get Inspired" section aimed to provide a more positive narrative on migration.
In Morocco, national consultations were held in September 2017 with civil society and diaspora representivatives, scholars and researchers, represensatives of the private sector and public institutions. These national consultations have enabled Morocco to come with a consolidated contribution to the Global Compact, the "Recommendations of the Kingdom of Morocco on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration."
The “Être Humain et Mobilité” project aims to raise awareness on discrimination and migration in ten holiday centers of the Ministry of Youth and Sports as well as ten public middle schools.
The project aims at strengthening the role of civil society in promoting the rights of migrants, especially through dialogue with local public institutions. Beneficiaries are migrants, refugees, Moroccan returnees and the local population.
The Barcelona Anti-Rumour Strategy is a line of action of the Barcelona Interculturality Programme. They generate tools and discourses for dispelling these rumours and stereotypes, and thus to move ahead towards living together in a more intercultural and cohesive society.
The following actions are implemented:
The government of Sweden has adopted a "National Plan to Combat Racism, Similar forms of hostility and Hate Crime". The plan identifies a number of strategic areas, including education and research, improved coordination and monitoring, greater support for and more in-depth dialogue with civil society, strengthening preventive measures online, and a more active legal system.
In 2015, UNAOC launched an anti-hate speech project called Spread No Hate with #SpreadNoHate used in the social media campaign. Through a series of international discussions, media campaigns and policy reports, it tries to explore the reasons why hate speech remains such a pervasive phenomenon, which contributes to violent extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
The Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) is a global inter-agency programme funded by the European Union and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It focuses on the local dimension of migrants’ contribution to development and aims to maximize the potential of migration for local development. To achieve this, the JMDI provides technical and financial support to up-scale existing locally-led migration and development initiatives across 15 projects in eight target countries: Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Morocco, Nepal, Philippines, Senegal and Tunisia.
Launched in 2009, PLURAL+ is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with a network of more than 50 partner organizations around the globe.