This report is issued by the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union in 2011.
Objective of this report:
Awareness on repudiating and avoiding domestic violence against women with disability
Special guidelines for “Building Licenses” pertaining to public and private buildings of the urban planning centers across Lebanon
Guidelines no. 2
- This guideline is issued by The Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union, arranged by engineer Bashar Abdel Samad, in October 2011.
Objective of the guideline:
Support the application of the decree concerning the accessible environment for people with disability.
Raise awareness on inclusion of people with disability.
Although Lebanon is known in the Middle East for its relative political openness and for the degree of freedom Lebanese women enjoy, it paradoxically has one of the lowest rates of women’s political engagement in the region.
The brief of this qualitative exploratory study was to conduct targeted interviews with female employers of migrant domestic workers, psychiatrists, lawyers and institutional stakeholders in Lebanon.
This study is issued by the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union in 2011.
Objective of the report:
Launch discussion around social inclusion of children with disability in Lebanon and promote the inclusion criteria in accordance with related general policies in Lebanon.
This report will provide a description of the assessment conducted by IMC’s Mental Health and Psychosocial team in the region of Wadi Khaled following the displacement of Syrians into the northern villages between the Lebanese-Syrian borders as a result of the internal conflic
UNHCR, coordinating the operations in the North along side with the HRC (High Relief Commission) and DRC as its main implementing partner, requested from DRC to conduct a first rapid assessment in the Bekaa with the following objectives: a) To identify existing areas of displa
Working Paper Series #3 | July 2010
Describing the Lebanese Youth: A National and Psycho-Social SurveyCharles Harb
The present research investigates socio-demographic, socio-cultural and social-psychological profiles of a representative sample of Lebanese youth. The study thus provides a first assessment of youth in Lebanon, with a clear hope to replicate this research in other parts of the Arab world. This report does not aim to provide a comprehensive model testing between levels of analyses, but rather focuses on a more descriptive profiling of such variables in a way that may be useful to...
IFI Research and Policy Memo #1 | April 2010
The Transnational Tobacco Industry Effectively Hampers Tobacco Control Policy-Making in LebanonRima Nakkash
Lebanon is still considered one of the weakest countries in the region with regards to regulating tobacco use, despite having ratified the World Health Organisation’s Framework convention on Tobacco Control in 2005. Lebanon has failed numerous attempts to introduce a national tobacco control policy, including banning smoking in closed public areas, banning advertising and sponsorship, and placing large pictorial health warnings on tobacco...
The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) and the World Bank organized a workshop entitled "Gender Statistics in Lebanon: Current Situation and Future Needs," which took place on June 17, 2010.
This publication is a compilation of reports prepared by group of civil society organizations in light of the review of Lebanon under the first-cycle of Universal Periodic Review(2010).
Information on the health service in Lebanon including availability of access and availability of drugs and treatment. Information on treatment of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic syndrome, including psychiatric treatment.
#3 مذكرات للباحثين و صناع القرار
بامكان الشباب أن يصبحوا قادة لهم تأثير في لبنان(CRS) خدمات الإغاثة الكاثوليكية
تعكس إمكانية تعبئة الشباب اللبناني بسهولة نسبية الديناميكية العالية والنشاط الذي تتسم به مجتمعاتهم. وتقدر نسبة الشباب الذين أفادوا بأنهم يقومون بعمل طوعي بحوالي النصف، غالبيتهم ممن ّ يقومون بأعمال تطوعية على الاقل مرة كل شهر. ولكن نشاطاتهم تعكس محيطهم المسيس والمتغير دائماً ّ، والمليء بالاحتقان في الكثير من الاحيان؛ مما يشكل فرصة وتحدي في الوقت ذاته
IFI Research and Policy Memo #3 | September 2009
Youth Can Become Effective Leaders in LebanonCatholic Relief Services (CRS)
Reflecting the dynamism and energy of their society, youth in Lebanon are easily mobilized. About half of Lebanese youth say they volunteer, and a majority of them do so at least monthly. Yet their activity reflects the politicized, evolving, often tense nature of their context. This creates both an opportunity and a challenge.
More often than not in Lebanon’s divisive context, this youth activism is through political parties or politically affiliated groups and these...
في 21 كانون الثاني/يناير 2009 اعتمد المجلس التنفيذي لمنظمة الصحة العالمية القرار م ت124 ق 4 الذي طلب إلى المديرة العامة لمنظمة الصحة العالمية أن توفد بعثة صحية متخصصة إلى غزة للوقوف على الاحتياجات الصحية و الإنسانية العاجلة بعد 22 يوماً من العمليات العسكرية الإسرائلية التي بدأ
The starting point for the present Report is that, since the publication of the first volume in the series, the region’s human development fault lines have grown more complex, and in some cases deepened.
