The Beirut Affirmation on Freedom of Expression
Round Table Discussion on the Right to Freedoms of Opinion, Expression, and Press in Lebanon Patterns, Challenges and Legal Reform Suggestions The Beirut Affirmation on Freedom of Expression 1 March 2019 – Beirut, Lebanon We, parliamentarians, journalists,...
UNICEF and partners reached over one million children in Lebanon last year
UNICEF and partners supported more than one million girls, boys, adolescents and young people across Lebanon in 2018 with health, nutrition, education and child protection services. Working in close collaboration with the Lebanese authorities, UNICEF continues to put...
ALEF Annual Report on human rights in Lebanon in 2018
Act for Human Rights published its annual report on the most critical challenges and developments to human rights in Lebanon in 2018. Dr. Elie Abou Aoun, ALEF’s Secretary General, highlighted some positive, although delayed, steps which were taken by Lebanese...
Business dragging its feet on human rights and investors are watching, say UN experts
Too many companies globally are ignoring their human rights obligations and governments are failing to regulate and lead by example in business practices, a group of independent UN experts say. A report* by the experts urges business to exercise ‘human rights due...