Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recently stepped in and donated the rest of the money needed to pay for medical treatment to rebuild Syrian refugee Fatima’s hands. The campaign to rebuild her hands had been running for ten months, and saw INARA raise over $50,000.
Fatima lost her hands in an explosion early on in the Syrian civil war. Her family had just finished having people over for dinner, and had just said goodbye, when they heard a loud bang. What happened next, neither Fatima nor her mother, Nafla, can remember. Nafla's next memory is running out of the house carrying her bleeding...
UNHCR and INARA have this week launched a video to try to prevent burn injuries and reduce the number of refugee children suffering burns due to poor living conditions and lack of safety awareness.
Sofia Karim, Programme Manager at INARA, said: “Almost a third of all of our cases here at INARA are children that have been burnt from accidents while living as refugees here in Lebanon. We keep on getting more and more cases coming through all the time. We knew that we had to act to try and prevent it - and this is how our collaboration with UNHCR came about.”
UNHCR and INARA worked closely...
INARA is proud to partner with UNICEF in Lebanon.
UNICEF has awarded INARA more than $100,000 over the next year. This money will expand the work that INARA is already doing on the ground in Lebanon with Syrian refugee children.
This UNICEF partnership allows INARA to work with more children from conflict areas who have catastrophic injury and are unable to access treatment due to war. INARA provides life-altering and life-saving medical care, and fills the gaps in medical access when it is not provided by other institutions or non-profits.
When a child is referred to INARA, there are two...
Following a call for papers on “Glocalising humanitarian interventions in Lebanon: a reflexive look into innovative practices in times of crises” published by Amel Association International and Lebanon Support, a round table was held on May 19th in Beirut, in preparation to the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on the 23rd and 24th of May 2016. The main objective of this roundtable was to discuss innovative ideas brought up within the call for papers (papers will be published as of August 2016 on Lebanon Support’s Humanitarian Knowledge Base project), and for local organisations, alongside...
ستقوم جمعية سوا للتنمية وبالتعاون مع مجلس الانماء والاعمار بمشروع فرز وادارة النفايات المنزلية مع اتحاد بلديات البقاع الاوسط وسيشمل التدريب حوالي 500 سيددة من منطقة البقاع الاوسط وسيكون جزء من المشروع اعادة تدوير المواد البلاستيكية والورق على ان يتخلل انتهاء المشروع معرض للمواد المصنعة. وستسفيد من المشروع النساء في بلدات: قب الياس - مكسة- جديتا- برالياس - سعدنايل - برالياس - مجدل عنجر -وعنجر.
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights is sharing to the European Union External Action its concerns regarding the human rights situation in Lebanon. Although Human Rights are recognized by the Lebanese state on the International stage by the signature of numerous core human rights treaties, their implementation within the border seems to remain a delicate matter.
The renewal of the Partnership between European Union and Lebanon aiming at focusing on “pressing the authorities for an appropriate protection environment”, is the opportunity for CLDH to recall the urgency of implementing...
Besme Support in collaboration with Arab Center for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Education in France organized a training workshop for youth under the title “Spreading Culture of Human Rights” in Besme office in Ashrafieh.
First, General Manager of Besme Gulshan Saglam welcome “the youth attendees for the workshop”, consider “their role is essential in building the society”. She spoke about the importance of this workshop and said: “through this workshop we can spread culture and human rights in our society”.
The Lecturer of the workshop was the President of...
The last two decades have witnessed several humanitarian catastrophes (medical catastrophes like the 2013-2015 Ebola epidemic, natural disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the start and escalation of several armed conflicts) that required level one emergency response. Because the response from the international community, i.e. World leaders, UN agencies and INGOs, was often inadequate these events elucidated the need for dramatic change in the humanitarian system.
The situation in Syria is a flagrant case in point. The international community’s failure to address the root causes...
وطنية - اختتمت المرحلة الاولى من الندوة التثقيفية حول موضوع الحركة المنقذة - الرقابة الصحية والاسعافات الاولية، التي نفذها قسم العلاقات العامة في جامعة AUL، بالتنسيق مع القطاع الصحي في المركز [الوطني للدمج الأجتماعي، في حضور مديرة الجامعة لورين فياض، في حرم الجامعة في طرابلس - الميناء.
والقت فياض كلمة شكرت فيها "جهود الطلاب والقيمين على هذا العمل"، وقالت:"استهدفت الندوة 40 طالبا وطالبة من مختلف كليات الجامعة بعد خضوع المشاركين تقويم خطي عبر مسابقات صفية وتطبيقات عملية".
واعلنت عن "نشاطات طالبية شبابية عدة ينفذها قسم العلاقات العامة في الجامعة".
وختاما، سلم المدرب الدولي رئيس القطاع الصحي في...
Besme and Nashet Social and Cultural Association organized a launching event for the new project “Youth Cinema and Media” on 13 May 2016 at Ayn El-Hilweh Palestinian Refugee Camp in Saida. Mr. Zafer Al-Khatib, Chairman of Nashet, Mrs. Gulshan Saglam, the General Manager of Besme, Mr. Niyazi G.Atay, Deputy General Manager of Besme, Fatma Atay, Project Manager of Besme, Dr. Ramzi Awad the Director of Arab Training Center, Mahmoud Briech and Haitham Abou Ghizlan were present during the event.
The ceremony was opened by the word of the project coordinator Ms. Nahida Halemeh that welcomes the...
Under the auspices of the province Governor Mr. Ali Al-Maamari, Al-Thawra General Hospital in Taiz, in collaboration with the Supreme Medical Committee, organizes a ceremony in honour of supporting organizations and parties for the emergency center in providing service to the people of Taiz in order to continue the medical work.
At the ceremony Besme Group for Humanitarian Assistance was honored for its effective role in supporting the Internal Emergency Center that is considered the only Internal Center in the city that has been receiving number of cases and has been providing its services...
Your Excellency Mr. Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Secretary General,
Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, with as many as 1.5 million Syrian refugees and over 300,000 Palestine Refugees currently living in the country. Five years into the Syrian crisis, the living conditions of both refugees and Lebanese host communities are continuing to deteriorate. This crisis, which is increasingly complex and protracted, presents significant challenges for humanitarian action in a country which has been facing recurring emergencies for the past 40 years.
Your “One Humanity...
.كثرت االعتقاالت التي تطال اعضاء المجتمع المثلي في لبنان
.تلك التي تطال األشخاص األكثر تهميشا في مجتمعنا اللبناني ,ومنهم كثرت االعتقاالت في األونة األخيرة وخصوصا وتحديدا الالجئيين منهم وذلك بسبب التشدد في الرقابة األمنية
المثليين والمثليات والمتحوليين والمتحوالت اعطباطيا وبطريقة غير عادلة فيما ترى براود ليبانون أن الحفاظ على األمن هو أمر مشكور ومحبب ولكنه يطبق يخص المستهدفين من المثليين والمثليات والمتحوليين والمتحوالت ,وذلك ألن توقيف هؤالء ال يأتي في سياق أمني انما استنسابي تهميشي
اذ أننا رأينا في األشهر واأليام القليلة السابقة توقيف مجموعات غير حكومية للعديد من المثليين في مناطق محددة...
Human rights in Egyptian : unbreakable will.
On the 20th of March 2016, Nazra for feminist studies issued a statement confirming that they are under investigation in the case 173, that is known by the name of “cases of foreign funding for civil organization in Egypt”. Three staff members were called for investigation on the March 16, 2016. Where then the investigation session was postponed to Tuesday (March 22, 2016). The reasons of the investigation were not provided by the Egyptian authorities.
Case 173 against the civil society in Egypt doesn’t come as a surprise, it was actually an...
احيا مركز الأطفال والفتوة يوم المرأة العلمي في 8 أذار 2016 في مخيم شاتيلا حيث تحدثت الأخت المناضلة سمر العلمي بالمناسبة، والتي أكدت على دور المرأة الرائد على مستوى الفرد والاسرة والمجتمع، وان مشوارها لا زال طويلا ويتطلب مزيد من تنظيم الحركة النسائية وتحديدعناوين تطلعاتها، وان المساوة ونيل حقوقها لن تتحقق في ظل الاحتلال والتشرد، فنضال المرأة الفلسطينية والعربية من اجل حقوقها جزء من معركتها في المشروع الوطني، وتحرير الوطن، ودعت النساء الى مقاطعة بضائع الشركات الداعمة للعدوالاسرائيلي.
On the 8th of March, CYC celebrated International Women’s Day in Shatila camp. Activist Ms. Samar Al Alami...
يخوض مئات اآلالف من الاطفال السوريين ً اللاجئين في لبنان صراعا للحصول على حقهم في التعليم. حالف الحظ بعض الطالب فتمكنوا من االانخراط في بعض المدارس، لكنهم يعانون من وطأة الازمات ً النفسية بعيدا عن وطنهم. آخرون لم يتمكنوا من ضمان مقعد دراسي، لذا قبعوا في منازلهم او ذهبوا يبحثون عن عمل لهم.
وتقول الناشطة نوال مدللي، التي برز اسمها كمتطوعة في مبادرات لدعم اللاجئين السوريين في لبنان، الصعوبات التي يواجهها اللاجئ السوري لا تقتصرعلى أزمة تأمين التعليم، فهناك عوائق أخرى تحول دون التح الاطفال بصفوف عادية في المدارس الرسمية والمجانية كمشكلة توفير نفقات االتنقلات وعدم توفر فرص العمل أو انخفاض الاجور...
Justice Without Frontiers is working lately on “Women’s Access to Justice” project, which reached its second phase.
This project aims to provide equal and equitable access to formal and informal justice for poor and vulnerable women through interventions at the personal, community, systemic and regional levels.
Therefore, JWF aims to spread awareness among women and community about Personal status law, as well as women's rights and international laws and conventions related to women's rights.
We are willing to give a free fees session to a group of 15 to 20 people.
For more information...
عقدت خلية الأزمة المنبثقة عن فصائل منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية والتحالف الوطني الفلطسيني والقوى الاسلامية واللجان الشعبية اجتماعا في 13شباط 2016 لمناقشة نتائج التحركات الشعبية السلمية في المناطق وبيروت في مواجهة سياسة واجراءت منظمة الأنروا المجحفة بحق شعبنا الفلسطيني وخصوصا في لبنان.
وقد ثمن المجتمعون الحراك الجماهيري والتصدي لسياسة الامعان في سوء الأوضاع الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والبيئية والصحية والتعليمية، ودفع اللاجئين الفلسطينيين الى اليأس والآحباط والهجرة تمهيدا لخلق مناخات تطيح بحق العودة وبقاء الأحتلال الأسرائيلي في فلسطين، وقد اعتبر المجتمعون ان الأنروا بمثابة اداة تنفيذية من قبل مجموعة...
As Syrian, regional and international civil society organisations (CSOs) involved in responding to the horrors faced by Syrians inside their own country and the needs of refugees across the Middle East and Europe, we call on leaders to take urgent action to respond effectively and in a timely manner to the most devastating humanitarian crisis of our generation.
We stress that Syrian CSOs with their expertise must be at the heart of the discussions at the Supporting Syria and the Region conference held in London on 4 February 2016, and beyond. It is crucial that we do not only see Syrian...
BEIRUT, January 27, 2016—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...
