We are reaching out to you—the visionaries, the tech architects, the diaspora, and the global believers—to join us as Founding Trustees ion the 961aiPivot. We don't want a "donation" that disappears into a temporary fix. We want a partnership that builds a permanent, sovereign infrastructure. We want you to stand with us as we decouple our talent from our troubles. When you partner with us, you aren't just funding a platform; you are anchoring a soul to its soil. You are proving that a nation’s spirit cannot be switched off by a power outage. You are helping us build a Lebanon that doesn't...
ككل عام تطلق المؤسسة الفلسطينية لحقوق الانسان (شاهد) تقريرها السنوي للعام 2023 حول واقع اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في لبنان، تطرح فيه الأرقام والوقائع الموثقة وتضعها بين يدي صانع القرار المحلي والدولي.
هذا التقرير هو خلاصة للجهود البحثية والمتابعات الميدانية لفريق عمل مؤسسة (شاهد) خلال عام كامل.
Economic integration is an important means to generate income and employment, to boost investment and to spur structural transformation toward more diversified and broad-based economic models.
The Arab region continues to manage uncertainties on its path towards an inclusive and sustainable growth trajectory: geopolitical tensions persist, and global interest rates have soared.
The report examines how economic and financial policies of the EU affect the economies of Southern Mediterranean countries. It’s interesting to note the shortcomings of these policies with regard to civil and political rights.
The second report is an evaluation of civil society initiatives on economic and social rights, including a series of civil society initiatives focusing on
This report introduces the conflict context in the Central Bekaa region. The area is of geostrategic importance as it contains the main border crossing to Syria and the Damascus highway, the international route from Beirut to Damascus.
The report entitled challenges for civil society and the promotion of economic and social rights, brings together recommendations from civil society actors and academics to strengthen Euro-Mediterra
With globalisation, the mobility of people has grown, and women are essential actors in this migratory phenomenon. This article focuses on the role of women in migration and the role of migration in advancing women’s rights to achieve gender equality.
Based on the findings of participatory protection research that Oxfam undertook with refugees in Lebanon between late 2016 and early 2017, this paper explores refugees’ own definitions and conceptions of safety, and highlights refugee perspectives on how the international comm
This report explores the impact of transport infrastructure and service availability and efficiency on the connectivity – the state of being connected – of GVCs.
The 2017 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VASyR) is the fifth annual survey assessing the situation of a representative sample of registered Syrian refugee households to identify situational changes and trends.
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform policy formulation on local level security provision and refugee protection, and to propose modalities for upgrading the sys- tems of the Lebanese security institutions in a way that strengthens protection of the Lebanese communities and the Syrian refugees they host. Based on eld research conducted between February and May 2016 in three locations across Lebanon, this brief analyses the challenges to protecting local communities and refugees in a hybrid system, in which formal and informal security actors coexist and implement a mix of security...
This report aims to analyse how formal and informal security providers implement their respective social order agendas through a security “assemblage”. It also aims to inform the debate on refugee protection and security provision in urban settings, in the context of Lebanon’s hybrid security system. The accounts collected illustrate how state security institutions tacitly accept – or even rely on – informal security actors, managing at times to achieve their political and strategic goals through decentralised and/or illegal forms of control. In this vein, local municipalities imposed curfews...
