By 2020, Tunisia’s health sector had all the components of a crisis, and any discussion about it had come to revolve around certain themes expressing much disappointment and many blatant contradictions. The disparity between a public sector weighed down by problems and structural and functional incapacity escalating daily and a…

On the morning of 6 April 2020, while the family of Syrian refugee Bassam Hallaq – the martyr of subsistence who immolated himself in Beqaa – were paying their farewells, Minister of Social Affairs Ramzi Moucharafieh declared that there are “two million displaced Syrians in Lebanon” in the meeting of…

On 26 November 2018, ten MPs submitted a bill to amend the 2014 Law on the Protection of Women and Family Members Against Domestic Violence at the initiative of the organization KAFA (Enough) Violence & Exploitation. The organization resorted to a parliamentary initiative after the government of the time entered…

In the latest of a series of controversial legal principles recently adopted by the Court of Cassation,[1] the court’s Labor Circuit deemed assembly to be one of the “crimes that violate honor”[2] in an appeal concerning compensation for a worker’s dismissal from the Alexandria Petroleum Company.[3] According to the facts…

Summary Following the Beirut port massacre on 4 August 2020, Lebanese citizens discovered that they are once again facing an enormous crime without fortified judicial and security institutions capable of investigating it and determining liabilities impartially, independently, and transparently. In this regard, we wish to make a number of observations:…

The Legal Agenda, jointly with the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) and the Centre for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) in Colombia, has won the 2020 Tang Prize in Rule of Law. The Tang Prize Foundation announced in a statement that the three organizations deserved the prize…

Per the plan of the project to convey water to Greater Beirut, the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) and the World Bank – the project’s main financer – state that water will be supplied to Beirut from the following sources: 60 to 100 million cubic meters from Bisri Dam…