The Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities, represented by its President Silvana Al-Laqis, participated in a workshop on lessons learned from the 2022 parliamentary elections – Elections and Inclusion: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. The Federation presented the most prominent results regarding the parliamentary elections in terms of equipment for persons with disabilities […]
“My Right” – the national campaign for the realization of political rights for people with disabilities in Lebanon The campaign had deployed its 234 observers to 41 mobile and fixed teams, support groups, and operations rooms in the Beirut, Mount Lebanon, North, Akkar, South, Nabatieh, Bekaa, and Baalbek-Hermel governorates. The initial monitoring result monitored 465 […]
“My Right” – the national campaign for the realization of political rights for people with disabilities in Lebanon Campaign teams monitored 138 out of 177 polling stations (78%) whose ground floors included rooms suitable for polling stations. In dealing with disabled voters, 3% of the violations were related to security forces not facilitating the passage […]
As in every election since 2005, the “My Right Campaign” returned in the 2022 parliamentary elections to emphasize activating the role of people with disabilities in political life, facilitating their participation in elections, and removing them from the state of marginalization that dominates their participation in political life, which is caused by engineering obstacles, the […]
As soon as the French bus donation to the Lebanese government arrived in May 2022, a specialized team from the Lebanese Union for Persons with Disabilities inspected the arriving buses to document their readiness for use by disabled passengers. The inspection showed that the buses include equipment that facilitates the use of crutches and wheelchairs, […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities deployed 234 observers to 41 mobile and fixed teams, support groups, and operations rooms.The observers were distributed in the districts of Beirut, Mount Lebanon, North, Akkar, South, Nabatieh, Bekaa, and Baalbek-Hermel governorates. The campaign monitored 465 violations in the selected centers.The violations were distributed as follows:26 violations […]
The United Nations Deputy Chief, Amina Mohammed, visited the Access Kitchen led & run by women with disabilities and discussed challenges and opportunities for advancing the rights, inclusion and equality of women and girls with disabilities in Lebanon.
The monitoring teams of the My Right Campaign – the national campaign for the realization of political rights for people with disabilities – started early in the morning. The campaign distributed its 234 observers to 41 mobile and fixed teams, support groups and operations rooms in the Beirut, Mount Lebanon, North, Akkar, South, Nabatieh, Bekaa […]
The monitoring teams of the My Right Campaign – National Campaign for the Realization of Political Rights for Persons with Disabilities concluded the electoral monitoring day, where the campaign had distributed its 234 observers to 41 mobile and fixed teams, support groups and operations rooms, in the districts of Beirut, Mount Lebanon, North, Akkar, South, […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Disabilities (LUPD) team held a meeting for the leaders of twelve teams of observers that will be deployed tomorrow during the parliamentary elections. This coordination meeting was held at the operations room in Halba to discuss the logistics of tomorrow’s parliamentary elections. The team discussed all plans regarding the […]
The Ministry of Interior initially adopted the list sent and was able to adjust the location of some polling centers that do not have rooms on their ground floors. We saw initial cooperation from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education through the minister’s circular regarding the opening of ground-floor rooms where they exist, and […]
We saw no cooperation from the Ministry of Social Affairs, which withheld the data of people with disabilities from the Ministry of Interior, and the lists it handed over cannot be used to identify the place of registration of disabled voters so that governors can instruct them to set up polling stations for disabled voters […]
