It is important to note here that we have received a positive response from the governors, as the Federation, through our efforts, was able to provide them with nominal lists of members and volunteers of the Federation, and the pens were opened in some districts and we received initial reassuring news from them. If the […]
The My Right campaign urges disabled voters to exercise their electoral right by casting their votes for whichever candidates they wish, emphasizing that “the My Right campaign is across regions, sects, parliamentary blocs and all candidates, and does not encourage voting for any specific list, but urges the disabled voter to exercise his right, in […]
On May 10, 2022, Minister of Information Ziad Makkari received, in his office at the Ministry, a delegation of representatives of associations for the disabled: President of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities Silvana Al-Laqis, President of the Shabiba Association for the Blind Amer Makarem and a number of representatives of disabled associations […]
A press conference dedicated to the launch of the “My Right 2022 Campaign – National Campaign for the Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon” to monitor violations against disabled voters in the May 15, 2022 elections; the Federation will deploy its teams of 200 observers after they underwent training. Click here and here […]
She started in 2005 to urge the implementation of Article 98 of Law 220/2000 to preserve the right of persons with disabilities to run and vote, and was able to include a legal article in the draft of President Fouad Boutros’ committee for the draft electoral law, and then the Lebanese legislator stabilized the content […]
The Federation worked to monitor voting centers and survey the extent of their readiness for disabled voters to complete an inclusive voting process. The comprehensive field survey of polling centers in Lebanon between 2008 and 2009, the audit in Beirut in 2015, the study of the cost of equipping all schools in Lebanon, both public […]
After each parliamentary and municipal election over the past seventeen years, the campaign issued detailed reports on violations against disabled voters, and received promises from those directly involved that future elections would be inclusive, which between 2005 and 2019 were, unfortunately, empty promises.
The campaign kicks off today with more than two hundred volunteers to observe after we have lowered our expectations and limited the many demands to what we call the bare minimum of disabled voters’ rights. We summarized them with the following demands: Using ground floor rooms in polling stations as polling stations where they exist, […]
The LUPD launched My Right – the national campaign for the realization of political rights for persons with disabilities in Lebanon, in its ninth edition, at a press conference in Beirut, in the presence and participation of representatives of the European Union Delegation, international election monitoring bodies, and the campaign’s 215 local observers. After the […]
The Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities (LFPMD) launched the My Right 2022 campaign, which demands the rights of people with disabilities, pregnant women, and the elderly during the 2022 parliamentary elections. The conference dealt with the main themes that the Federation has worked on since 2005 until the parliamentary elections in 2022, which […]
Training 45 volunteers and election observers in the Bekaa Valley through a series of training workshops.
The Supervising Commission for Elections request to stop Maharat’s activities is a restriction on civil society The Electoral Reform Consortium expresses its concern about the increasing restrictions on public spaces in Lebanon and on freedom of opinion and expression in general, the most recent of which is the restriction practiced by the Electoral Supervisory Commission […]
