
Lawyer Ahmed Souab Arrested for Boldy Pleading Against Judicial Subordination
On the morning of Monday, April 21, security forces raided the home of lawyer and…
Yassine Nabli | 25/04/2025
There have been several attempts to introduce reforms to Lebanon’s Court of Accounts (CoA). The latest and most comprehensive was a bill that the government referred to Parliament via Decree no. 9458 of 4 December 2012. Parliament’s Administration and Justice Committee finished studying this bill on 5 September 2016. It…
Nizar Saghieh, Fadi Ibrahim | 01/04/2025
With the objective of instilling a culture of impunity and deceiving citizens as financial, administrative, and judicial appointments as well as municipal and parliamentary elections approach, some bankers and their powerful allies are leading a systematic campaign that seeks to invert narratives, falsify facts, and flood public opinion with misleading…
The Legal Agenda | 20/03/2025
The phrase “shifting sands” could describe the current situation in Lebanon in general, and in Akkar Governorate in particular, following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on 8 December 2024. Amidst expectations that the Syrian refugees who came to Lebanon when the Syrian crisis began in 2011 would…
Saada Allaw | 29/03/2025
Beirut, October 10, 2023 The ‘Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon’ calls on Lebanese judicial authorities to conduct a serious investigation into the assault on protesters and journalists in downtown Beirut on Saturday, September 30, 2023. As Lebanon grapples with a dark economic, security, and political trajectory,…
Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression | 10/10/2023
On 19 October 2022, Tunisia’s government issued order no. 768, which slightly raised the minimum daily wage “guaranteed” to women working in agriculture from TND16 [USD5] in 2021 to TND17.7 [USD5.5]. This improvement, which came on the heels of International Day of Rural Women, is commendable in principle. However,…
Asmaa slaimia | 01/12/2022
With the objective of instilling a culture of impunity and deceiving citizens as financial, administrative, and judicial appointments as well as municipal and parliamentary elections approach, some bankers and their powerful allies are leading a systematic campaign that seeks to invert narratives, falsify facts, and flood public opinion with misleading…
The Legal Agenda | 20/03/2025
Caretaker Minister of Culture Mohammad Mortada recently announced that he has referred to the Council of Ministers a bill to punish the promotion of homosexuality and gender transition, which he himself drafted. This step followed a week of social media buzz about the minister’s extreme stances opposing the screening of…
Nizar Saghieh | 25/09/2023
On 29 May 2024, the Council of Ministers issued a decision extending, on an “exceptional basis”, the authorization for five cement companies to extract the raw materials required to meet domestic market needs for one year. The decision was proposed by the ministers of industry and environment and based on…
Reine Ibrahim | 17/07/2024
On the morning of Monday, April 21, security forces raided the home of lawyer and…
Yassine Nabli | 25/04/2025
On 4 April 2025, the Council of Ministers took the fantastic step of rescinding the…
Nizar Saghieh, Amani Beainy | 09/04/2025
Pre-auditing, which involves verifying the legality of financial transactions and their conformity with the budget…
Nizar Saghieh, Fadi Ibrahim | 03/04/2025
There have been several attempts to introduce reforms to Lebanon’s Court of Accounts (CoA). The…
Nizar Saghieh, Fadi Ibrahim | 01/04/2025
كيف فينا نسترجع الودائع؟ المزيد في الحلقة 5 من فاصل قانوني مع المحامي كريم نمّور. تابعونا على | Follow…
Karim Nammour | 03/04/2024
Hiwarat Fikriya, la nouvelle émission d’entretiens filmés de Legal Agenda, a rencontré l’historienne et féministe décoloniale Françoise Vergès. Avec elle…
Olfa Lamloum | 02/07/2024
This report has been produced with assistance of the European Union. The content of this report is the sole…
Ghida Frangieh, Ali Swaidan | 19/03/2025