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…

Beirut, 12 December 2024   With the fall of the authoritarian Assad regime on 8 December 2024, the barrier of fear that prevented many Syrians from returning to their country has fallen, and the fears of many Lebanese about demographic change in Lebanon through the permanent settlement of refugees from…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…