Upholding Migrants Rights in the Fight Against COVID-19
Start Date: 20 July 2020
Duration: 8 Months
This project seeks to contribute to upholding migrants’ rights in the fight against COVID-19. It does so through mapping the ways COVID-19 has impacted migrants in Malta, identifying promising practices and developing, through consultation with migrant community organisations and NGOs, a series of guiding principles towards ensuring the response to COVID-19 into 2021 and beyond respects the rights of migrants, refugees and trafficked persons.
The main output of the project is a set of Principles that NGOs, migrant community organisations and the public can use to promote a better response to COVID-19 that respects the rights of migrants and refugees.
Additional outputs include:
This project supplements other work that The People for Change Foundation has done about the Human Rights Impacts of the Response to COVID-19 including for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
This project is funded by Alumni Rapid Response Fund of the US Department of State through the Embassy of the United States in Malta.
Duration: 8 Months
This project seeks to contribute to upholding migrants’ rights in the fight against COVID-19. It does so through mapping the ways COVID-19 has impacted migrants in Malta, identifying promising practices and developing, through consultation with migrant community organisations and NGOs, a series of guiding principles towards ensuring the response to COVID-19 into 2021 and beyond respects the rights of migrants, refugees and trafficked persons.
The main output of the project is a set of Principles that NGOs, migrant community organisations and the public can use to promote a better response to COVID-19 that respects the rights of migrants and refugees.
Additional outputs include:
- A report providing the findings of the research
- A compendium of promising practices
- A new page on the Malta Human Rights Library collecting resources and information on COVID-19 in Malta
This project supplements other work that The People for Change Foundation has done about the Human Rights Impacts of the Response to COVID-19 including for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
This project is funded by Alumni Rapid Response Fund of the US Department of State through the Embassy of the United States in Malta.

This Project is funded by the Embassy of the United States