Projects
The People for Change Foundation is currently working on a number of projects in the areas of migration and trafficking. To learn more about our projects, please contact us at info@pfcmalta.org.
Recent Projects
Preservere: Promoting anti-racism with a legal perspective
Preventing Racism and Discrimination – Enabling the Effective Implementation of the EU Anti-Racist Legal Framework
Preservere proposes actions that prevent and fight racism and xenophobia through a more effective implementation of the European legal framework that has already been transposed in Member States that are part of the partnership: Italy, Cyprus, Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria and Malta. It focuses, in particular, on professionals who are expected to enforce this framework, but are often unaware of, or unfamiliar with it and, therefore, unable to rely on it in order to protect and empower victimised groups.
The EU Anti-Racism Action Plan 2020-25 notes that a system that protects groups vulnerable to racial or ethnic discrimination must, first and foremost, rely on the effective enforcement of the legal framework. While this is available in the EU (primarily in the form of the Racial Equality Directive and the Victims’ Rights Directive), the European Commission has acknowledged that effective implementation of said framework is often lacking. Preservere will address these identified gaps by:
1. Examining how the legal framework has been transposed in the national contexts of project partners. It will question whether the existing legal framework, at both the European and national levels, fits for purpose, or if there are gaps to be filled (by amending and strengthening existing Directives or passing new legislation).
2. Identifying the gaps (and reasons these exist) in the implementation of the law in each partner country.
3. Supporting these researches with better data. The project will explore the extent to which the law is enforced in different partner countries, by collecting and coding data on the number of relevant cases that are reported to the police or equality bodies, the outcomes of their investigations, how many cases reach the Court and their outcomes, including any penalties imposed on the perpetrators.
4. Building on the analysis and data collected, the project will develop educational materials for legal professionals.
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Preservere proposes actions that prevent and fight racism and xenophobia through a more effective implementation of the European legal framework that has already been transposed in Member States that are part of the partnership: Italy, Cyprus, Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria and Malta. It focuses, in particular, on professionals who are expected to enforce this framework, but are often unaware of, or unfamiliar with it and, therefore, unable to rely on it in order to protect and empower victimised groups.
The EU Anti-Racism Action Plan 2020-25 notes that a system that protects groups vulnerable to racial or ethnic discrimination must, first and foremost, rely on the effective enforcement of the legal framework. While this is available in the EU (primarily in the form of the Racial Equality Directive and the Victims’ Rights Directive), the European Commission has acknowledged that effective implementation of said framework is often lacking. Preservere will address these identified gaps by:
1. Examining how the legal framework has been transposed in the national contexts of project partners. It will question whether the existing legal framework, at both the European and national levels, fits for purpose, or if there are gaps to be filled (by amending and strengthening existing Directives or passing new legislation).
2. Identifying the gaps (and reasons these exist) in the implementation of the law in each partner country.
3. Supporting these researches with better data. The project will explore the extent to which the law is enforced in different partner countries, by collecting and coding data on the number of relevant cases that are reported to the police or equality bodies, the outcomes of their investigations, how many cases reach the Court and their outcomes, including any penalties imposed on the perpetrators.
4. Building on the analysis and data collected, the project will develop educational materials for legal professionals.
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DARE: Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality
The Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality Project contributes to an enhanced understanding of why and how young people become radicalised, that is adopt radical ideologies with the potential for violent action. It does so through conceptual innovation and refinement based on new empirical research on young people’s encounters with messages and agents of radicalisation, their receptivity and responses to them and the paths they subsequently take. The project also seeks to demonstrate that radicalisation is not located exclusively in any one religion, community or demographic. Through its focus on Islamist and anti-Islam(ist) radicalisations, it explores how radicalisation processes interact and may have cumulative effects in society. DARE sees the future of radicalisation studies not in profiling the individual and his/her presumed associated qualities but understanding the process and meaning of engagement with radicalisation for the individual in historical, socio-cultural and political context. PfC is responsible for conducting research and other project activities in Malta, for the development of educational toolkits and for the project’s continuation and impact plans.
Keywords: radicalisation, equality, youth.
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Keywords: radicalisation, equality, youth.
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