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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
