The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities participated in a conference organized by the Arab NGO Network for Development in cooperation with the Coalition of Civil Organizations at the Basil Fuleihan Institute of the Lebanese Ministry of Finance, to discuss the mid-term report of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism on human rights in Lebanon. In the opening session, the director of the Bassel Flihan Institute of Finance and Economics, Lamia Al-Bassat, the Director of Reporting at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kinja Janek, and the Executive Director of Al-Shabaka, Ziad Abdel Samad, spoke.

The discussions addressed civil and political human rights issues in the first session with Jad Shahrour of the Samir Kassir Foundation, Fadl Fakih of the Lebanese Center for Human Rights, and Ghida Frangieh of the Legal Agenda. The economic and social dimensions of the crisis were discussed in the second session, with Hassan Sherri of Al-Shabaka and Tamam Marwa of the Social Movement. The third session was devoted to the rights of people with disabilities, facilitated by Raed Ataya of Naba’a, and included Emadeddine Raif of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, Ghida Anani of ABAAD, and Melkar Khoury of the Research and Consulting House. Overall, the conference highlighted ongoing challenges and proposed actionable solutions to improve human rights in Lebanon.

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