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Human Rights Organizations: Lebanon
Association For Defense of Rights and Freedoms- ADDL [French | Arabic]:
Defends Human Rights and civil liberties.
Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation
[French | Arabic]:
The CLHRF is a coalition of Canadian and Canadian-Lebanese volunteers devoted to advocate the human rights cause in Lebanon and to help the Lebanese people in Lebanon and in the Diaspora to be able to defend and practice their basic human rights without fear of persecution or discrimination.
Human Rights Information Network in Lebanon [French |
Arabic]:
The network is a central repository for human rights information and websites in Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World
[French | Arabic]:
Promotes networking between Arab women and women all over the world and aims to empower women through action programs.
Institute of Human Rights- Lebanon
[French |
Arabic]:
The Institute aims at promoting universal values stated in the Lebanese constitution and in the United Nations conventions of human rights.
Joseph and Laure Moghaizel Foundation
[French | Arabic]:
The foundation aims to enhance and disseminate the thoughts and discipline of Joseph and Laure Moghaizel concerning, Human Rights, Democracy, Secularism in addition to other teachings.
Khiam Rehabilitation Center
[French | Arabic]:
Al-Khiam Center for the Rehabilitation of the victims of torture aims to improve the health and psychological conditions of the persons who have been rescued from the Israeli concentration camps of torture. It establishes centers for medical, psychological and physical treatment and social, professional and educational rehabilitation.
Lebanese Council to Resist Violence Against Women (LCRVAW)
[French | Arabic]:
The Council aims to raise public awareness against violence , as well as work on legislating laws for the protection of abused women.
Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering [French | Arabic]:
The women's gathering aims to remove all restrictions on the implementation of international regulations calling for the abolition of all kinds of discrimination against women.
Migrant Network
[French | Arabic]:
The Lebanese NGO Forum (LNF) focuses its attention on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The LNF developed and initiated a special resettlement program to address this large-scale human tragedy, ranging from infrastructure rehabilitation to legal awareness and education campaigns, in an effort to eliminate the sequels of war, participate in the consolidation of national reconciliation and contribute to the reconstruction of the Rule of Law in Lebanon.
National Commission for Lebanese Women
[French | Arabic]:
NCLW was established as a national mechanism for women's advancement and gender equality, in compliance with global resolutions put forth during the Beijing world conference on Women in 1995.
National Committee for the Follow-Up of Women's Issues (Post Beijing) [French | Arabic]:
is a non governmental committee which aims to coordinate a network of various non-governmental organizations dealing with women’s affairs , it 's mission is to promote women’s participation in social, political and economic fields, and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.
Rene Moawad Foundation
[French | Arabic]:
The René Moawad Foundation is a non-profit and non-governmental organization. It aims to promote the social, economic, and rural development of Lebanon and contributes in building the civil society.
SOLIDA Movement (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) [French | Arabic]:
Solida is a movement for defending the rights of the arbitrarily detained Lebanese in the Syrian prisons. It is based in Paris, France.
Women's Rights Monitor
[French |
Arabic]:
A collection of Lebanese NGOs set to monitor women’s rights and implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Lebanon.
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