The President of the Arab Forum for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the LUPD, Sylvana Lakkis, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to Lebanon, at a meeting organized by UNWomen, which included a number of active women activists in the humanitarian, social and political fields. In the meeting, Lakkis explained […]
President of the AFRPD Sylvana Lakkis was invited to the meeting held by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at the ESCWA building in Beirut yesterday for a dialogue with representatives of civil society organizations. The speech was delivered by colleague Lakkis: “In Gaza, disabled people are annihilated and tortured, and I can’t […]
The LUPD organized a workshop titled “Integration Station” at the Inclusive Kitchen in Beirut this afternoon (December 27, 2024), with the participation of a number of activists from the Badawi – Mar Mikhael area and people with disabilities living in the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as the kitchen’s staff. The workshop included introductions to the […]
Silvana Al-Laqis writes: We met in Zahle, where the Access Kitchen was established by the Lebanese Federation for Persons with Mobility Disabilities, as a step in a process that addresses the cultural and societal challenges that have excluded persons with disabilities from public facilities and made access to human rights extremely difficult, such as mobility, […]
In an advanced human rights step, and at the initiative of Lebanese MP Halima Kakour, a number of MPs in the Lebanese parliament sent a question to Foreign Minister Abdullah Bouhbib and the caretaker government as a whole through the Speaker of Parliament regarding the rights of disabled people in times of war and the […]
Under the title “My Decision, My Choice, My Responsibility”, the LUPD, in the southern town of Sarafand, implemented the sixth session of the psychosocial support program for disabled and non-disabled Lebanese and Syrian women.
The eighth training session for the Access Kitchen team, under the title “The Impact of Cooking on Nutrition”.
Within the framework of monitoring the challenges of displaced girls and women with disabilities, the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities team in the Central Bekaa held a consultation meeting with a number of displaced women, listened to them and documented the challenges they face.
The LUPD has started preparing and delivering meals to displaced families from areas that were bombed and their homes were damaged, as part of a project to strengthen food security and socio-economic resilience in crises at the community level funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This rapid action comes […]
Access Kitchen is working to prepare and deliver hot meals to our displaced people in displacement centers in Beirut, at a rate of 300 meals per day, starting on Monday, October 21, 2024. This initiative is part of the second phase of the emergency program of the Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities, which […]
With the start of the new wave of Israeli aggression, the LUPD mobilized its efforts on all Lebanese territories to accompany our displaced people from the villages of the south and the southern suburbs of Beirut, and to fill a gap in meeting the enormous needs of displaced persons with disabilities and their families. Our […]
