Med Culture opportunity: Drama, Diversity and Development project seeks applications for feasibility studies on remedies for cultural rights abuses

The Drama, Diversity and Development project, funded by the EU under its regional programme on Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean, has launched a call for tender to contract seven legal researchers or professionals to carry out before the end of 2014 feasibility studies on the use of legal remedies against the abuse of cultural and other related human rights, particularly affecting minorities in the southern mediterranean partner countries.

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Each project will be in the range of €2,000-€3,000. The closing date for applications is 30 July.

The project welcomes applications from civil society organisations, legal professionals, law firms and universities.

Applicants will be expected to meet minority community leaders to assess abuses of cultural rights and the extent to which minority organisations are already supporting individuals or groups to seek redress. Remedies investigated could include domestic litigation, reference to Ombudsmen, Human Rights Institutions, Equality Commissions or similar. The studies may also explore potential advocacy opportunities and international legal remedies.

Each study should result in a practical report detailing key information and findings, including details of lawyers interested in taking cases, as well as existing precedents and areas of the law which would benefit from clarification or enforcement. The reports should also list NGOs already undertaking human rights legal work in that country and their degree of interest in litigating cultural rights/minority rights, as well as organisations interested in starting litigation work who are not already doing so.

The full Terms of Reference are available in French, English and Arabic.

Drama, Diversity and Development (DDD) is the first grant project in culture funded under the regional programme Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean Region Programme. DDD then sub-grants 75% of its grant to smaller projects, towards its aim of promoting diversity and challenging discrimination against minoritiesthrough theatre. This call for studies is outside the subgrant scheme.

The three-year project aims to promote diversity through theatre across the region, engaging all levels of society and aiming to trigger dialogue about multiplicity, difference, discrimination, equality and justice.

DDD has also just published a call for proposals to allocate some sub-grants to street theatre projects focusing on minorities, using performance as a tool to challenge discrimination.

Media and culture for development in the Southern Mediterranean has been allocated a total budget of €17 million over a four-year period, of which €9 million is for the award of grants on a co-financing basis, and €8 million for one capacity-development mechanism on media (MedMedia) and one capacity development mechanism on culture (Med Culture). Specifically, the programme seeks to reinforce the role of media and culture as vectors for democratisation, and economic and social development for societies in the Southern Mediterranean. In the cultural field, it supports activities fostering cultural policy reform and reinforcing the capacity of cultural policy makers, as well as promoting investment and the development of cultural operators' business capabilities. (EU Neighbourhood Info)

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Press release and application documents

Drama, Diversity and Development - street theatre to challenge discrimination: call for proposals under MedCulture regional programme

Drama, Diversity and Development webpage

Med Culture web page

Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean Region Programme – project fiche

EU Neighbourhood Info Centre - Culture and media

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