Events

برعاية معالي وزير الشؤون الإجتماعية الأستاذ رشيد درباس، ضمن إطار برنامج "موزاييك" الممول من السفارة الإيطالية في بيروت، تتشرف وزارة الشؤون الإجتماعية بالشراكة مع جمعية دار الطفل اللبناني ومنظمة أبعاد بدعوتكم/ن إلى: حفل إطلاق وثيقة سياسة حماية الطفل الموحدة الخاصة بالمؤسسات والجمعيات الأهلية العاملة مع الأطفال في لبنان مشاركتكم/ن تسرنا للمزيد من المعلومات، اضغظ/ي هنا   For the information in English, please click here

ABAAD – “Resource Center for Gender Equality" in collaboration with Save the Children are pleased to announce the organization of a training for coaches and trainers working with children on the toolkit “Playing for Gender Equality”. The toolkit focuses on working with children between ages 8-11 years. The workshops will be held in Beirut from 25-28 August 2015 (Venue to be confirmed at a later time). Objective of the trainings: The trainings are aimed to achieve the following objectives: -      Provide participants with the framework needed to understand gender and concepts related to it...

Besme Company is glad to announce the launch of Turkish language courses. In collaboration with Next Generation Association (Jil Al-Mostaqbal), a member of Lebanese-Turkish Forum, the courses are supported by the Embassy of Turkey in Lebanon through the lecturers coming from Turkey for this purpose. The language courses will be free of charge and open to people form Turkish origin as well as people in Lebanon. Required documents - Copy of ID - Passport photo - Full Address - Phone number - Copy of the university or vocational or school certificate if found Please send these documents to the...

Under the Patronage of His Excellency Me. George Jreij – President of the Beirut Bar Association   The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) with the support of Open Society Foundation Cordially invites you to a roundtable entitled:   “Legal Aid in Lebanon in 2015: Facts and Challenges”   During this roundtable, the work of CLDH in the field of legal assistance will be presented and discussed, and debates will take place on the challenges of the Legal Aid system in Lebanon. The finalized program will be provided to participants confirming their attendance.   Places are limited. Kindly...

You are cordially invited to attend an information session about our new volunteering programs at Balsam on June 30, 2015, from 5:00-6:00pm in Balsam's office. The volunteering programs focus on fundraising& event planning, community awareness campaigns,administrative stuff, social media management, posters design as well as patient assistance. Kindly confirm your attendance by emailing j.abiramia@balsam-lb.org . or calling 01-748574

أمام الانتماءات المتضاربة، كيف لمكونات المواطنة أن تكون هوية جامعة ؟Face aux appartenances conflictuelles, comment les composantes de la citoyenneté pourraient-elles devenir une identité fédératrice?In face of the conflicting belongings, how could the components of citizenship be a uniting identity?   Where does national belonging stands in respect of political, religious, communitary and cultural ones?Is there still a way for a citizenship identity?How could it emerge, based on equality in people's rights and duties, and how could it become a reconcialing plateform among all identities? This...

Call for participation   ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS, and in collaboration with MARSA and the Syrian League for Citizenship, is planning to conduct a one (1) day training on “How to engage front-line workers in combating child marriage”. The training aims to introduce the participants to the interlinkages between child marriage and GBV against girls and provide them with interactive tools and exercises to catalyze discussions on the topic with adolescent girls and their families.   The training will encompass the following: -          Introduction to...

The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support, With the support of WAFAW, Cordially invite you to a talk on: Uprisings in the Arab world: the consecration of counterrevolutions? By:Frédéric Vairel,associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-author of Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe, PUM, 2014. With discussant:Mariam Younes, PhD candidate, University of Roskilde in Denmark Introduction by:Vincent Geisser, (IFPO/CNRS/WAFAW), “The revolution has just started” During the 2011 popular uprisings, the same thing did...

"Al-Saada Li-Atfalina" in collaboration with "SB OverSeas" presents a musical theater show performed by the children of "Bokra Ahla" center in sabra refugee camp. The play will reflect the everyday life reality that the Lebanese and refugee children face in sabra camp. The show will include :-Art Exhibition .-hand craft exhibition. -Tombola. Address: Metro Al-Madina Theater.Date: 15, June, 2015.Time: 5:00 pmFree Entrance. RSVP: 70/493374 76/539073 https://www.facebook.com/events/583441535126079/  تنظم جمعية "السعادة لأطفالنا" بالتعاون مع منظمة "عبر البحار" حفل مسرحي غنائي يقدمه أطفال مركز...

himaya, local NGO founded in 2009, whose mission is to promote an environment suitable for the development of the child, and ensure a global protection of children in Lebanon via fighting and preventing all types of abuse, is proud to invite you to its first annual symposium; Under the Patronage of Mrs. Lama Tammam Salam: "Building and strengthening resilience in child protection: A multisectorial approach" Meet us on Friday June 12 and Saturday June 13 at The Faculty of Medical Science at 8:30 am! We'll be sharing the 2 day Program soon so stay tuned! For more info : himaya@himaya.org 71-802...

The Committee for the Follow Up on Women Issues (CFUWI) and ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality, and Oxfam, with the financial support of the Norwegian Ministry of Social Affairs cordially invite you to the launching ceremony of the: "Transformative Political Identities for Gender Equality" Lana Project  Friday, June 12, 2015 from 10:00 till 12:00 Holiday Inn Hotel - Verdun, Beirut RSVP: 01-366238/01-361035 We will be honored by your presence  Parking is available  The Launching Ceremony Program: - Welcoming speech by the President of the CFUWI Dr. Fehmieh Charafeddine  - Welcoming...

Nabras Foundation organized a graduation event for the IT Students that have been graduated in the previous courses.

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Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a talk on: Bordering the Middle East: concepts and challenges By:Daniel Meier,political scientist. He is a research fellow at CNRS, Grenoble, affiliated with the Euborderscapes programme. A former Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College in Oxford, he also taught at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His publications focus on Lebanese-Palestinian relationships, border issues, and politics in the Middle East. His forthcoming book is titled Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon (IB Tauris)...

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS is planning to conduct a Three-full day’s training on “How to Organize Support Groups for Women Survivors of GBV Using a Survivor-Centered Approach” on June 3rd ,4th ,5th  at Hotel Radisson SAS Blue Martinez – Beirut. The training hours will be from 9AM until 4PM.     The overall objective of the workshop is to reinforce the capacity of participants in planning and facilitating support group sessions with women survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) using a survivor-centered approach.   More specifically, the training will...

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality in partnership with HIVOS is planning to conduct a Three-full day’s training on “How to Organize Support Groups for Women Survivors of GBV Using a Survivor-Centered Approach” on June 3rd ,4th ,5th  at Hotel Radisson SAS Blue Martinez – Beirut. The training hours will be from 9AM until 4PM. To express interest, kindly fill the Participant Questionnaire using the following link:http://goo.gl/forms/qPCWug9y3S Deadline for registration is Thursday, May 28, 2015.Participant Questionnaires will be screened by an expert committee including the trainer to...

Has your organization, service institution, or government agency ever had difficulty recruiting volunteers? or had a bad experience with your volunteers? or with volunteer/staff relations? Are you flooded with requests by students who want to fulfill service requirements or companies that want to do corporate volunteer projects, but you don't know what to do with them ... or why you should bother? Many of the problems related to volunteering could be avoided if organizations had a better idea of how to prepare for, recruit, place, orient, train, and otherwise manage their volunteers.  Two...

On Friday May 22 an event will take place at Crowne Plaza Hotel, in collaboration with the Inclusion Network, to launch the publication “Inclusive School Model. Guide for Inclusive School System”. It is the final event of an Italian funded project aimed at promoting inclusion of children with special needs in Lebanese primary schools, implemented by the Italian NGO Gruppo di Volontariato Civile (GVC) and the Lebanese one Youth Association of the Blind (YAB). The project has been co-funded by the Italian MFA.