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Summary Booklet | June 2012 Arab Uprisings Symposium Summary Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players IFI by Maureen Ali This symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which was launched and is supported by the Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. AUB has invited over twenty scholars from the Arab world and abroad to this Symposium to discuss critical themes that have emerged to date, and to help shape our future research agenda. The symposium will highlight shifting power...

Working Paper | May 2012
Women’s Citizenship Rights in Lebanon by Maya W. Mansour and Sarah G. Abou Aad
This paper tackles citizenship rights of Lebanese women married to foreigners, from an international human rights perspective at first, as consecrated over and over by multiple conventions and treaties; to move afterwards to a more practical approach in exposing the provisions of the Lebanese Constitution, the nationality law and regulations, while pointing out the consequences and challenges in addition to the movements of the civil society facing such trials. The analysis used in...

   This study targeted the prisons in South Lebanon within the provinces of Tyre (Tyre prison) and Nabatiye (Nabatiye and Tebnin prisons). Its human and material limits were wide as it included most of the inmates in the three prisons and their families- whether living in or outside the south (Beirut, Baalabek, and Zahle) and remaining Lebanese regions. The main target was to detect and acquire knowledge about the social, educational, medical and economic needs of these families, to follow them up, and shed light on them through a program on which all public and private community stakeholders...

Link to orginial post: http://www.helem.net/node/188 Written by: Doctor Wahid Al Farchichi: Law Professor at the Tunisian University, Professor Nizar Saghiyeh: Lawyer and Independant Law Researcher Contents: The law and homosexuality A survey and an analytical study of the legislation of most Arab countries  Part one: The discrepancies in the Arab legislations in the criminalization of the homosexual act Part two: The disparities of the sanctions for the homosexual acts in the Arab legislations  Conclusion Law and homosexuality: any ways for reconciliation?  List of references Homosexuals in...

The research will provide better understanding on the legislations and laws that authorities are using to control or oppress any movement or any type of activism on gender and sexuality issues in JORDAN.

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This book tackles key Issues of concern within the aid discussion. It outlines issues of particular importance for civil society in the Arab region and highlights the difference of prospectives between government representatives and CSOs.

Over the span of three years, Instituto Promundo, with support from the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, implemented a multi-country project to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and promote gender equality.

A series of publications entitled "Assessing the MDG process in the Arab Region".

Titled “Let The Resolution Begin…. Live Gender Equity”, this resource is the annual report of ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equity, which lists the accomplishments of the organization for the period between June 2011 and June 2012.

Arabic version available

In late 2011, WILPF began to develop a programme to enhance the collective capacities of women’s rights organisations to respond to the unprecedented political events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Over 57,000 displaced Syrians are receiving protection and assistance in Lebanon through the efforts of the Government of Lebanon and UN and NGO partners.

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality, in partnership with Women's League for International Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and in collaboration with the United Nations Interim Forces (UNFIL) in South Lebanon, organized the National Consultation Meeting on May 10th, 2012 at Holi

In recent years, the “sponsorship system” (kafala) in Lebanon and in other countries in the region has been identified as a core problem leading to the exploitation and abuse of migrant domestic workers.

‫قانون الأشخاص المفقودين والمخفيين قسراً‬‫وضعت منظّمات المجتمع المدني، وعلى رأسها جمعيّّات الأهالي، مشروع قانون للأشخاص المفقودين والمخفيين قسرًا، بهدف اعتماده من قبل السلطات اللبنانيّة.‬ ‫الأسباب الموجبة‬‫مع انتهاء الحرب (١٩٧٥ - ١٩٩٩) ، لم يتمكن لبنان من ايجاد حل مرض لضحايا الحرب وقضاياهم، وتحديدا لقضايا المفقودين والمخفيين قسرًا وذويهم.‬‫وحتّى الآن، لا زال أهالي الضحايا يناضلون في سبيل حقّهم بمعرفة ما جرى لهؤلاء الّذين أخذوا منهم، إن كانوا لا يزالون على قيد الحياة- وباسترداد رفاتهم إذا تبيّن أنّهم توفّوا، لكنهميناضلون أيضًا في سبيل حقّهم بالحصول على اعتراف مّمن نجوا من الحرب، أي الدولة...

It is well known that the cultural norms and the patriarchal society in Lebanon contribute to encouraging discrimination and any form of violence against women and children.

This issue of SIF looks briefly at Education in Lebanon using key indicators and figures available from a number of surveys conducted by the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) in Lebanon in recent years.

This brochure presents a brief introduction to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process and introduces the different stages of possible engagement by civil society groups with the process.

This resource is a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reference training manual for frontline staff on how to work with GBV survivors.