The Legal Agenda is a non-profit research and advocacy organization based in Beirut with offices in Lebanon and Tunisia and correspondents in several Arab countries. It was founded in December 2009 by a group of jurists, researchers and human rights activists who joined forces to build a critical and interdisciplinary approach to law and justice in Arab countries, with a special focus on political, civil, social and economic rights.
Related Projects المشاريع ذات الصلة
The Disability Monitor
The Disability Monitor aims to amplify the voices of people with disabilities by documenting complaints about violations of their rights in accordance with relevant local and international legislation.
Related Resources الموارد ذات الصلة
Social Monitoring Principles Implementation Guide
31 / 12 / 2014
The Monitor for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities offers a training manual on social monitoring that summarizes the principles of monitoring, links violations to rights, and gives training examples of specific cases from Lebanese society that the monitor can refer to.
Access to Information Guide
31 / 12 / 2016
The Primary Health Care Network This guide explains models on how to assess access to information for persons with disabilities in Lebanon. A specific and detailed model was chosen to target the network of primary health care centers affiliated with the Ministry of Health on Lebanese territory, a large and growing network whose services include […]
When the State is Chronically Ill
11 / 05 / 2013
The Legal Agenda publishes a report prepared by Nizar Saghieh and Ghida Frangieh in cooperation with the Lebanese Wheelchair Union and the Diakonia Society, titled: “When the State is Chronically Ill: The movement around Law 220/2000, from diagnosis to intensive care.” This report does not aim to monitor the rights enshrined in the said law […]
