Samar Al-Tfeili, a colleague from LUPD, contributed to preparing the report. It focuses on a critical gap in the protection of persons with disabilities and highlights the disproportionate challenges they face in accessing safety, shelter, and essential services.
The monitoring report issued by the My Right campaign on the political participation of persons with disabilities in the 2025 Lebanese municipal and optional elections.
The massive displacement of September 23, 2024, represented the first serious test of the long-discussed emergency plan since the start of the Israeli aggression on border villages in October 2023. The Ministry of Interior and Municipalities’ response demonstrated a complete failure to facilitate the movement of hundreds of thousands of displaced people northward. Southern displaced […]
The Universal Periodic Review was established when the UN General Assembly established the Human Rights Council on March 15, 2006 through resolution 60/251. This resolution mandated the Human Rights Council to “conduct a universal periodic review, based on objective and reliable information, of the fulfilment by each State of its human rights obligations in a […]
For the thirteenth consecutive year, the Monitor for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities continues to monitor violations against this category of Lebanese citizens and Palestinian and Syrian refugees residing on Lebanese territory, in accordance with Law 220/2000 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the laws in force.
Lebanon participated in the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva in 2021 and presented its report for the third time before the Human Rights Council, following which it received several recommendations. It is . More than 30 civil society organizations in Lebanon, including national and regional networks, have formed a coalition to prepare a civil society […]
For the twelfth consecutive year, the Monitor for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities continues to monitor violations against this category of Lebanese citizens and Palestinian and Syrian refugees residing on Lebanese territory, in accordance with the provisions of Law 220/2000 on the rights of persons with disabilities and the laws in force.
What is the human rights approach to the concept of disability? How prepared are polling centers for disabled voters? What are the violations against voters with disabilities?
This review was prepared by the Lebanese Union of Physically Disabled Persons, the Youth Association for the Blind, the Lebanese Self-Advocacy Association, the National Association for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Lebanese Federation for the Deaf, the Palestinian Disability Commission, the Darb al-Wafa Association for the Disabled, the Musawa Association, the Association for […]
The 2018-2019 monitor yearly report is a continuation of the Union’s monitoring process on the one hand, and one of the fruits of the project “Strengthening the Capacities of Lebanese and Syrian Disabled Persons to Access their Rights” on the other. Lebanese and Syrian persons with disabilities to access their rights” project. On the other […]
