cases of deterioration of human rights and when members are in danger or imprisoned close and critical monitoring of the own efforts of the EU information on human rights violations in North Africa and the Middle East by publishing reports, policy papers and newsletters research and training by means of training seminars and workshops History December 1997: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network was founded during a meeting at the Danish Centre for Human Rights (DHRC) in Copenhagen by a group of human rights activists from the North and the South of the Mediterranean. Founding people were then director of the DHRC, Morten Kjaerum, and Said Essoulami from Moroccan human rights organisation CMF-MENA. Further participants in the founding assembly (but no members of the EMHRN) were the Dutch Council for Refugees, the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. 1999: The network co-organised the EuroMed Civil Forum in Stuttgart. 2000: The EMHRN received a European Union funding contract. On its fourth General Assembly in Marseille, a new action plan was adopted, which saw the network multiplying its activities. In the following years, an office in Brussels was opened and preparations for offices in Rabat and Amman were taken. More staff in addition to the Executive Director were hired. 2006: During the European Ministerial Conference in Istanbul a five-year plan for promotion of the role of the women in society was adopted, which included proposals carried out by the EMHRN. 2015: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) becomes EuroMed Rights 2017: EuroMed Rights celebrated its twentieth anniversary 2018: The 11th General Assembly of EuroMed Rights elects Wadih Al-Asmar, President of the Lebanese Center for Human Rights, as its new president. Structure EuroMed Rights (formerly known as the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network) has the following members: See also Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor References External links Euromediterranean Partnership International human rights organizations