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The 11th Edition of the Festival Rabat-Africa 2017

Every year, the Fondation Orient-Occident organizes the Festival Rabat-Africa, to celebrate the diversity and the intermingling of Moroccan and sub-Saharan populations. The Festival aims to raise awareness on issues such as racism, exclusion and indifference. By taking place in Morocco, African land and link between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean countries, the Festival pays tribute

Fondation Orient-Occident goes to New York

In the past days, the Fondation Orient-Occident flew to New York to take part to the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, held on the 18th and 19th of September. Yasmina Filali, the main rapresentative of the Foundation, participated together with other 700 members from government, business, civil society and international organizations. The inaugural Sustainable Development Impact

Yasmina Filali is winner of the 2017 Elissa-Didon prize awarded at the FORUM VI in Beyrouth

International Association for the Safeguarding of Tyr, League of Canaanite, Phoenician and Punic Cities, Under the auspices of UNESCO, invited The Foundation Orient-Occident’s president Yasmina Filali to receive her prize in Beyrouth, Lebanon; Yasmina Filali will also take part to the Forum VI “HISTORY, SOURCE OF SOLUTIONS TO THE PRESENT PROBLEMS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN »

A Glimpse into the Future: Migration

“Fondation Orient-Occident president Yasmina Filali, together with Khalid Koser, Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund and Ratna Omidvar, Senator of Canada, took part to the Global Future Council podcast on the Future of Migration: the discussion touched upon future challenges posed to society by global migration, the role of governments and

Fondation Orient-Occident to the UNHCR – NGOs Consultation in Geneva- Standing #WithRefugees: What civil society can do to promote a positive narrative about refugees

Yasmina Filali Wins Schwab Foundation’s 2016 Social Entrepreneurs Award

Yasmina Filali Head of the Fondation Orient-Occident was announced winner of Swiss-based Schwab Foundation’s 2016 Social Entrepreneur Award for her excellent action in “providing job training to underprivileged Moroccans, sub-Saharan migrants and refugees.”

The 10th edition of Rabat-Africa festival

The Rabat-Africa Festival is an annual tradition where African troops from Morocco and elsewhere, artists from immigrant descent, refugee or asylum seekers come together and bring to viewers their many talents and put all the cultural richness of Africa in the spotlight.