This report compiles information on hundreds of incidents of serious human rights violations that occurred in Lebanon from 1975 to 2008, including mass killings, enforced disappearances, assassinations, forced displacement, and the shelling of civilian areas.
Conflicts, abuses, repression, and human rights violations always leave a bitter taste when proper mourning to achieve personal or communal healing is cutoff by indifference, and politics of amnesia.
Accountability has many meanings. Traditionally, it was understood as the was in which those who authorised others to act on their behalf made sure that authority was being used as agreed.
The Manual on the Internal Management of the Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Lebanon aims at providing a practical tool to develop and build the capacities of the NGOs in Lebanon.
Pcode is an abbreviated term for 'Place Code'. P-codes are similar to zip codes and postal codes and are part of a data management system that provides unique reference codes to over a thousand locations in the Darfur region.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, grants to everyone the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of borders (Article 19).
Why would a reference book addressing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of different sizes, interests, and functions begin with a discussion on development?
A simple answer to this very relevant question is that development is the ultimate aim and objective that underlies the work of each and every NGO, association, trade union, and civil society institution. In other words, development is a common ground for all these organizations, as well as the long-term goal that enables them to broaden their range of activities, to cooperate with others, and to expand their scope from the local to...
