Through its emergency program, the Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities announced that it will provide free services to people who have developed disabilities as a result of the Beirut explosion, or people with disabilities who were affected in one way or another by the explosion. These services include Occupational therapy at the hands […]
On July 20, 2020 July 2020, a delegation from the Lebanese Union for Persons with Disabilities met met with Minister of Labor Lamia Yamin at her office in the ministry (Mashrafieh). The delegation consisted of consisted of its president, Silvana Al-Laqis, and Emad Eddine Raif of the Observatory for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities […]
The Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities and the Observatory for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities launched a campaign to mark the twentieth anniversary of Law 220/2000. The campaign included several short videos filmed by people with disabilities and digital posters highlighting the most prominent rights they are denied. The LUPD hopes that […]
The Observatory for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon is surprised that for thirteen years the Lebanese Parliament did not convene in a legislative session to ratify the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and that it is convening today to go backwards in terms of terminology related to disability […]
The crisis cell for people with disabilities in the face of the COVID19 pandemic, which includes representatives of the LUPD, the Friends of the Disabled Association, the Youth Association for the Blind, the Darb Al-Wafaa Association for the Socially Disabled, Mousawat, the National Association for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Lebanese Association for […]
The Army Command announced today that as of tomorrow morning (Tuesday, April 14), it will start providing the social assistance approved by the Council of Ministers, according to the nominal lists received from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, while the Disability Rights Observatory is receiving multiple complaints from people with various disabilities from […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, the Lebanese Union for the Deaf, the National Association for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Lebanese Association for Self-Advocacy, the Forum for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Shabiba Association for the Blind, and the Deaf Education Center issued a statement on the occasion […]
The President of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, Silvana Al-Laqis, emphasized “the necessity of creating decisions for an inclusive environment because it is a human right and its non-implementation violates a convention and weakens social cohesion,” and wished everyone to adopt “facilitating movement to promote inclusive life for people with disabilities in […]
A festive greeting to all of you, my friends and girlfriends, comrades of the long road. It is so wonderful to come together today to celebrate our movement that was born out of the struggle of each and every one of us, who started struggling on a personal level, facing challenges and difficulties on a […]
The Lebanese Wheelchair Union participated in the Disability and Work Conference, organized by ESCWA at its headquarters in Beirut on December 14, 2017. At the conference, ESCWA’s Executive Director Dr. Khawla Matar spoke, the head of the Department of Disability Affairs, Ms. Mary Al-Hajj, delivered the Ministry of Social Affairs speech, and the head of […]
Inclusive tourism is the creation of an enabling environment that should meet the needs of all people, regardless of their abilities, disabled or non-disabled, temporarily or otherwise (mobility, hearing, visual or intellectual), families traveling with children, or elderly people, especially in light of the increasing aging of the global population (in 2050, the elderly over […]
The Platinum Hotel, located in the Tyre area, is currently preparing 4 rooms to welcome all customers with different needs. This step comes within the framework of the existing cooperation between the project and the hotel management, where a cooperation protocol was signed and a work plan was developed that started from assessing the place […]
