On Sunday, September 6, 2026, the LUPD administration held its annual meeting with General Assembly members in the Baalbek region at the union’s center in the city. Over twenty members attended, along with Secretary Jihad Ismail, Vice President Hussein Jaber, Administrative Board member Zeinab Wahoud, and a number of friends and supporters. This gathering is […]
The LUPD main Beirut branch held an organizational meeting for its members on the afternoon of Saturday, July 11th. The meeting brought together members of the branch’s general assembly, and those present discussed living conditions amid the current circumstances and the lack of official attention to securing suitable job opportunities for people with disabilities. The […]
Empowering the next generation of advocates. On 8 July 2026, LUPD President Sylvana Lakkis, together with Abir, joined students at Haigazian University for an interactive session on disability rights, inclusion, and advocacy. The discussion explored LUPD’s journey from a grassroots movement to a leading organization advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in Lebanon, while […]
The event at Le Gray Hotel brought together representatives from government institutions, international organizations, academia, the technical community, the private sector, media, and civil society to discuss the importance of an inclusive and accessible digital future.
On June 15, 2026, the General Assembly of the Alliance of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon convened at the headquarters of the Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities (LUPD) in Beirut. The meeting focused on discussing the overall action plan, advocacy strategy, coordination mechanisms, and organizational roles of its members. This meeting […]
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 […]
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, […]
A delegation from the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities and Ma’an Association met today with the head of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, Dr. Michel Moussa, at the Parliament building in Beirut. The meeting aimed to discuss the rights of people who were permanently disabled as a result of the Beirut port explosion, […]
MP Najat Aoun visited the office of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities in Beirut, where she met with the president of the union, Silvana Al-Laqis, and a number of unionists.During the meeting, Aoun expressed her interest in the issues of people with disabilities, noting the challenges they face in their quest for […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, represented by social worker Heba El Abdeen, participated in the meeting of the National Eye Center in Abra – East Saida, which was organized with the participation of Minister of Social Affairs Hector Hajjar and MP Osama Saad, and was attended by a number of representatives of […]
The Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities in the South, represented by colleague Rana Ghanoui, held a meeting with the Executive Director of Balsma Comprehensive Health Center in Al-Hilaliyah, Ramzi Zidan. The two parties discussed ways of cooperation between the Federation and the center and mechanisms of sustainable communication between them, in addition to […]
