As part of the My Right Campaign’s follow-up to its demands related to facilitating the voting process for disabled voters, the President of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, Silvana Al-Laqis, and the President of the Inclusive Network for Persons with Disabilities, Fadi Halabi, met with Minister of Education and Higher Education Abbas […]
To prevent the continued humiliation of disabled voters by carrying them on stairs in polling stations and to ensure respect for their human dignity, the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities organized a sit-in in front of the Government Serail in Beirut today, under the title “Towards an Inclusive Voting Process that Respects Diversity”. […]
The Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities launched the first phase of the project to economically empower disabled women and girls by establishing local kitchens, which it is implementing in partnership with UN Women. The current phase includes intensive training sessions on food safety, in which two groups of fifteen women participate, with two […]
Nearly two months before the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15, the performance of the political authority continues to raise confusion about the actual readiness of the concerned authorities to organize the elections at the required level. In addition to the non-disbursement of funds to the Electoral Supervisory Commission to monitor electoral spending and electoral […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities participated in the forum held at the Ministry of Interior entitled “Elections Forum” on February 15, 2022, which was organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities and the United Nations Office in Lebanon, to focus on preparations for the parliamentary elections. The forum was […]
As part of the preparations for the My Right 2022 campaign, and within the framework of the “Electoral Reform Consrtium”, the LUPD organized two meetings for disabled rights activists, the first remotely on February 19 and the second at its headquarters in Beirut on February 20, 2022, to discuss a series of pressure actions to […]
The Electoral Reform Coalition fears that bringing the issue of the megacenter to the table less than three months before the elections would pave the way for postponing the elections under various pretexts, including “technical” ones. Despite the relentless demand for the necessity of adopting the megacenter in any election because of its positive impact […]
Electoral Reform Coalition press conference at the Press Club today: Holding political authorities responsible for any scheme to postpone elections Click here to watch the video of the conference
The Electoral Reform Coalition emphasizes that the opening of candidacy does not necessarily mean that elections are happening! The Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, as well as the government, have a great responsibility to ensure that the electoral entitlement is held on its constitutional date and to provide everything necessary to ensure a fair electoral […]
A delegation from the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities and the Shabiba Association for the Blind met with Minister of Interior and Municipalities Bassam Mawlawi at his office to discuss proposals the union had submitted to ensure that persons with disabilities can vote independently without violating their rights. Mawlawi was receptive to the […]
The Disability Rights Demanding Movement in Lebanon received promises and pledges from those directly involved in the electoral process about facilitating the process of voting for disabled voters in the general elections in application of Decree No. 2214/2009, and doing everything necessary to equip polling centers in Lebanon as stipulated in Section IV of Law […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities carried out a symbolic stand at the Beirut Fire Station and placed a wreath on the memorial inside the center in honor of the souls of the martyrs of humanitarian duty who were martyred from the Beirut Regiment during the suppression of the Beirut Port explosion fires, […]
