Mawjoudin

Mawjoudin (Arabic: موجودين, lit. '[we] exist'), or Mawjoudin Initiative for Equality, is a non-governmental organisation that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, especially LGBTQI+ people, in Tunisia.

The organisation was founded in December 2014 by feminist and LGBTQI+ activists that had in common the fight against heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and sexism or any other form of discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sexual characteristics.

The association offers safe spaces for support and psychological follow-up to the victims of discrimination. It proposes places for peer listening between the members of the community and provides information on the rights of LGBTQI+ people.

The association of Mawjoudin regularly provides reports on the rights of LGBTQI+ people to promote human rights, particularly sexual and bodily rights. Its members offer interventions in universities' spaces.

The organisation has a network of health (psychotherapists, psychologists and doctors) and legal (jurists and lawyers) professionals, as well as its important work in advocacy challenging cases of arbitrary arrests that are solely related to gender identity or sexual orientation, and even other cases of torture perpetrated by the police.

This association also offers workshops that allow the expansion of the network of the people sensitive to this issue and put in place acts of solidarity with the community.

A member, for instance, have created two comic strips based on testimonies of LGBTQI+ people.

In May 2020, Mawjoudin stated that reports of recognition of same-sex marriage in Tunisia were wrong and disappointing.