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This report aims to explore the fragmented organisation of healthcare services in Lebanon, for Syrian refugees. Although it is not an assessment of the Lebanese healthcare system, this report does nevertheless reflect on the challenges and underlying dynamics of the current Lebanese system, which are reproduced in the healthcare provision for Syrian refugees. In this sense, the report highlights the privatised, rather ad hoc, and irregular provision of healthcare in Lebanon, notably for Syrian refugees, which tends to take on a more curative rather than preventive approach, resulting in...

The present report draws attention on the vulnerable situation of victims of torture from Syria currently residing in Lebanon, especially in the light of the tightening of the Lebanese residency laws, whereby there seems to be a severe risk that torture victims will be exposed to torture once again.  Based on 100 testimonies from victims of torture, the report presents the practices of torture in Syria and in Lebanon towards refugees from Syria, along with the consequences on vulnerable individuals.

دف التّقرير جذب الإنتباه إلى هشاشة وضع ضحايا التعذيب من سوريا المقيمين حاليًا في لبنان، خاصةً على ضوء تعديل قانون الإقامة بحيث أصبح أكثر قسوةً، والذي أدّى إلىإحتمال عالي الخطورة تعرّض ضحايا التّعذيب إلى التّعذيب مرّةً أخرى.   هذا التّقرير يقدّم وسائل التّعذيب الممارسة في سوريا وفي لبنان تجاه اللّاجئين السّوريّين، بالإضافة إلى التّداعيات المسبَّبة تجاه الأشخاص ذوي الوضع الهشّ بالأساس، إستنادًا إلى شهادة 100 ضحية تعذيب.

This report examines both the historical development and current situation of Syrians working in Lebanon through the analysis of policies established and implemented by the Lebanese government. While the report is not an assessment of these policies, it nevertheless reflects on its impact on Syrians’ working conditions and livelihoods. In this vein, this report notably focuses on emerging dynamics of increased informality, exploitation, and dependence. It is part of a series of reports to be published in 2016, the 1st of which being "Formal Informality, Brokering Mechanisms, and Illegality...

This report seeks to provide an overview of Lebanon’s current policy towards Syrian refugees, and to explore the new rules and regulations issued by General Security regarding the entry, residency, and departure of Syrian nationals. It also analyses the challenges pertaining to the current policy and its impact on the daily lives of Syrian refugees, with a special focus on their emerging illegality, their struggle for decent livelihood and working conditions, and increased informality and insecurity. It is the first of a series of reports to be published in 2016, the 2nd report of the series...

The purpose of this policy brief is to inform policy formulation on local level security provision and refugee protection, and to propose modalities for upgrading the sys- tems of the Lebanese security institutions in a way that strengthens protection of the Lebanese communities and the Syrian refugees they host. Based on eld research conducted between February and May 2016 in three locations across Lebanon, this brief analyses the challenges to protecting local communities and refugees in a hybrid system, in which formal and informal security actors coexist and implement a mix of security...

This report aims to analyse how formal and informal security providers implement their respective social order agendas through a security “assemblage”. It also aims to inform the debate on refugee protection and security provision in urban settings, in the context of Lebanon’s hybrid security system. The accounts collected illustrate how state security institutions tacitly accept – or even rely on – informal security actors, managing at times to achieve their political and strategic goals through decentralised and/or illegal forms of control. In this vein, local municipalities imposed curfews...

Since the uprising in Syria in March 2011, over 4.3 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries. Over a million have sought refuge in Lebanon, constituting almost a quarter of the Lebanese population and becoming the largest refugee population per capita in the world. With inequitable health coverage being a longstanding problem in Lebanon, Syrian refugee women’s health, and specifically their sexual and reproductive health, is disproportionately affected. An increase in gender-based violence and early marriage, a lack of access to emergency obstetric care, limited access to...

The Syrian observer in Lebanon is studying the situation of human rights of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, supported by the Arab Human Rights Fund www.ahrfund.org and it is a one year project starting in January 2016. The number of Syrian refugees according to United Nations statistics is 400 thousand refugees, the focus in this report is on Saad Naiel area in Middle Beqaa.

www.ahrfund.org الراصد السوري في لبنان يدرس حالة حقوق اإلنسان لالجئين السوريين في منطقة البقاع في لبنان، بدعم من الصندوق العربي لحقوق اإلنسان   وهو مشروع لمدة سنة حيث يقدر عدد الالجئين السوريين ب 400 ألف الجئ حسب احصاءات االمم المتحدة وتم التركيز في هذه التقرير في منطقة سعد نايل في البقاع االوسط

The Syrian observer in Lebanon is studying the situation of human rights of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, supported by the Arab Human Rights Fund www.ahrfund.org and it is a one year project starting in January 2016. The number of Syrian refugees according to United Nations statistics is 400 thousand refugees, the focus in this report is on Saad Naiel area in Middle Beqaa.

www.ahrfund.org الراصد السوري في لبنان يدرس حالة حقوق اإلنسان لالجئين السوريين في منطقة البقاع في لبنان، بدعم من الصندوق العربي لحقوق اإلنسان   وهو مشروع لمدة سنة حيث يقدر عدد الالجئين السوريين ب 400 ألف الجئ حسب احصاءات االمم المتحدة وتم التركيز في هذه التقرير في منطقة سعد نايل في البقاع االوسط

This study explores the role of community-based organizations in preparing for and responding to crisis in Lebanon. While there has been considerable work conducted on preparedness, responsiveness and recovery to crisis in Lebanon, there has been little work so far that focuses on measuring and assessing the capacities, expertise, strengths and weaknesses of local CBOS in preparing and responding to crises. Managers and decisions makers from nine different organizations were interviewed on the overall expertise gained in past conflicts since the civil war as well as their current level of...

The Syrian observer in Lebanon is studying the situation of human rights of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, supported by the Arab Human Rights Fund www.ahrfund.org and it is a one year project starting in January 2016. The number of Syrian refugees according to United Nations statistics is 400 thousand refugees, the focus in this report is on Saad Naiel area in Middle Beqaa.

www.ahrfund.org الراصد السوري في لبنان يدرس حالة حقوق اإلنسان لالجئين السوريين في منطقة البقاع في لبنان، بدعم من الصندوق العربي لحقوق اإلنسان   وهو مشروع لمدة سنة حيث يقدر عدد الالجئين السوريين ب 400 ألف الجئ حسب احصاءات االمم المتحدة وتم التركيز في هذه التقرير في منطقة سعد نايل في البقاع االوسط

Twenty-five years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War, the families of the missing and forcibly disappeared in Lebanon are still waiting for answers about the fate of their loved ones. A new report by the International Center for Transitional Justice says the country seems to be ready to address this issue through an independent national commission and lays out the features of a successful future commission. The 38-page study, “The Missing in Lebanon: Inputs on the Establishment of the Independent National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon,” includes expert...

This report aims to present a general overview of the current local gender actors and their interventions in Lebanon. It also aims to shed light on the complex relationship between women’s organisations in Lebanon and their donors. In this context, it is important to ask to what extent the funding tends to shape project design at a local level? And moreover, does funding of short-term and service-oriented projects edulcorate the political change that these organisations could bring? Based on a survey done by Lebanon Support during 2015, it gives an overview of the main gender actors, their...

This document is an adaption of a speech delivered on May 12, 2015 at the launch of a report by the Syrian Justice and Accountability Center (SJAC) entitled ”A Step Towards Justice: Current Accountability Options for Crimes under International Law Committed in Syria.” The repo

This study was undertaken by the Center for Women (ECW) at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in the context of a regional programme to review progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action in the

This report provides an analysis of the current political, social and economic dynamics in Tripoli, Lebanon.