Events

The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness) held a legal seminar entitled: “A Legal Analysis of Administrative Detention and Enforced Disappearance Amidst War” on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at the Al Saha Hotel in Beirut. The three hours long seminar was divided into two sessions that included presentation of papers, interventions, and discussions on the current situation of Palestinian prisoners of war and detained amidst the ongoing war on Gaza, with an elite participation of academics and specialists in human rights and legal affairs, in addition to human rights’ activists and...

عقدت المؤسسة الفلسطينية لحقوق الإنسان (شاهد) ندوة قانونية تحت عنوان: "تحليل قانوني للاعتقال الإداري والاخفاء القسري في ظلّ الحرب" وذلك يوم الخميس الموافق 25\4\2024 في فندق الساحة في مدينة بيروت. تضمّنت الندوة التي استمرت لثلاث ساعات وامتدت على مدار جلستين من خلال تقديم أوراق، مداخلات، ونقاشات حول عناوين أساسية مطروحة حول ملف الأسرى الفلسطينيين في ظل الحرب المستمرة على قطاع غزة، وذلك بمشاركة نخبة من الأكاديميين والمختصين في الشأن القانوني والحقوقي، إضافة إلى نشطاء حقوقيين وممثلين عن جامعات لبنانية ومنظمات غير حكومية واتحاد المحامين العرب واللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر.

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BIKE AGAINST HUNGER Sunday, October 22, 2023 To Celebrate World Food Day, we will be organizing our yearly beautiful fundraiser where we bike together across Beirut on Sunday October 22, 2023 to raise awareness about hunger and food waste in Lebanon! Meeting place: Cyclosport, Gemmayze Meeting time: 9:00 a.m. SHARP Return time: around 1:00 p.m. Participation fee: $2 to be donated to FoodBlessed :) Bike rental fee: $3 (If you get your bike, you only pay the participation fee). --

Discover the power of empathy, connection, and understanding as you dive into the depths of Nonviolent Communication. This course equips you with the skills to foster harmonious relationships, resolve conflicts, and create a more compassionate world. Visit https://www.compassioncourse.org/ to find out more about the course.

يتشرّف المركز الدولي للعدالة الانتقالية بدعوتكم لحفل إطلاق وتوقيع كتاب "طواحين الهوى".

The International Center for transitional Justice and the Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon are pleased to invite you to the signing of "Windmills of Our Hearts", a new book of short stories by 15 women relatives of the missing and forcibly disappeared in Lebanon. The event will take place on Thursday 1 June at Dar El Wardieh, Hamra, Beirut, between 4 and 8pm.

In this 4-hour online session you can learn about preparing and facilitating a dialogue between two people, helping them to really listen to and understand each other and identifying actions they can take. You will learn how to prepare yourself so you can be equally supporting both sides, and to create a safe space for them to have a dialogue that is not about blame and defensiveness, but about really understanding the needs of both. You will have the opportunity to practice your new learned skills and to reflect on challenges you might have faced when you tried to facilitate or mediate before...

In this 3-hour online-session we will focus on our own feelings and needs. We will try to understand what keeps us from addressing the person and why we might not be able to just close this chapter. We can learn how to deal with our emotions involved and get clarity about our needs and next steps. This session can give us insights that make it much easier to approach the other person. Or it might even happen that after this session you don’t feel the need to address the issue with the other person anymore because you have ‘sorted this out’ in yourself.

In this 2-hour online-session we will discuss the signs of conflict escalation and what makes it difficult to act. We will also share tips on how to de-escalate in different situations. And we will look at how to take care of ourselves and others during (or after) such incidents. This can also mean letting go of self-judgements about how we ‘should have reacted’.

In this session you can learn to understand yourself better and come up with strategies that can really meet your needs.

The training course aims to share knowledge and promote evidence-informed and best practice interventions that are required for advancement of Universal Health Coverage, inclusion and social cohesion, as well as preparing for and responding to emergencies in the context of refugees and migrants in EMR.

This webinar aims to address vaccine inequity in the MENA region, and will look into challenges specific to local contexts.

Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) is publishing a report titled "Refugees Without Protection," This annual report sheds light on the various human rights violations against Syrian refugees observed and/or documented by Access Center for Human Rights during the year 2020 and presenting an overview of Lebanon's obligations under national law and international treaties.

عنوان الحلقة الحوارية التي نظمتها الجمعية اللبنانية للمبادرة والتنمية لمناسبة يوم المرأة العالمي، بمشاركة الضيفات المتميزات: الدكتورة سهى شاكر، الدكتورة خولة الهاشم، الأستاذة خديجة عمشة والصحافية إسلام جحا. أعدّ الحلقة وأدارها مسؤولة الإعلام في الجمعية الأستاذة هنادي زعرور، بمشاركة الإعلامية المتميزة راما الجراح.

The title of the dialogue session organized by the Lebanese Association for Initiative and Development on the occasion of International Women’s Day, with the participation of distinguished guests: Dr. Soha Shaker, Dr. Khawla Al-Hashem, Professor Khadija Amsha and journalist Islam Juha. The episode was prepared and moderated by the association's media officer, Ms. Hanadi Zaarour, with the participation of the distinguished media figure, Rama Al-Jarrah.

UN launched the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Sawa for Development is organizing a Zoom Webinar about" Gender Based Violence During Covid19"

forumZFD and Majed Abu Sharar Media Foundation (MASMF) invite you to join us on a journey with Oral Historian Maria Abunnasr and media journalist Alejandro Gomez-Meade to explore how to work with the past through the power of oral history and contemporary media.

The webinar aims at discussing social justice and social contracts in the Middle East, a region that is also witnessing one of the largest-scale displacements in history. It will reflect on aid interventions, by exploring the formulation of (new) social contracts, based on greater social inclusion of non-nationals, for the provision of social justice for all.

تهدف هذه الندوة إلى تسليط الضوء على تجارب وتحدّيات سياقية مختلفة تواجهها بلدان المنطقة، مع التركيز على الجهد المشترك الذي يمكن أن تبذله المجتمعات المدنية والاختصاصيون/ات والخبراء/خبيرات والناشطون/ات للدفع باتّجاه إرساء نهج قائم على الحقوق في جدول أعمال السياسة العامّة.