The United Nations in the Arab World Program & The Human Rights Research Project coridally invite you to a lecture by Mr. John Pace.
John Pace is an international civil servant of long standing in the United Nations. He served as Secretary to the Commission on Human Rights from 1978 to 1994, and was the Coordinator of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.
He has headed the Special Procedures and Technical Cooperation Programmes and has led fact-finding missions for the Commission in several countries. He was Chief of the Human Rights Component of the UN Mission in Iraq, and...
Under the patronage of HE the Minister of Tourism Michel Pharaon, Fair Trade Lebanon organizes for the 3rd consecutive year the World Fair Trade Day in Lebanon, on the 11th of May 2014. This event aims at raising awareness on Fair Trade and promoting more solidarity and equity in the trading practices from the local to the global levels.
It will take place on the 11th of May from 11 am to 6 pm in Ajami Square, Beirut Souks.
This initiative is part of the international fair trade campaign led by Fairtrade International and national fair trade organizations in more than 80 countries.
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Due to the lack of appropriate public space, Beirut dwellers lay claim today to a number of open areas in the city, the uses of which are akin to ‘public’ spaces – they are accessed freely and allow for an unconfined range of social activities.
This lecture advocates learning from the public by observing several left- over spaces in the city, in order to understand them as public, multicultural, socially just, and open. By focusing on the seafront area of Dalieh in Rawche, the lecture attempts to abandon the modern notion of public space and open new possibilities for understanding public...
Join us again this year for the 4th Annual Workers’ Day Celebration & Support our call for better legal protection of Migrant Domestic Workers!
For the 4th consecutive year, we will be holding a series of events to mark Workers' Day, along with hundreds of Migrant Domestic Workers. It will be a three-day event, on May 2-3-4. Please help us spread the word among Migrant Domestic Workers you know!
More details below:
Friday, May 2 11:00am – 1:00pm, Monot Theater, Ashrafieh Book launching “If not for the System…Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Tell their Stories” by KAFA (enough) Violence...
