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BEIRUT19
- BEIRUT (ILO News) - Eight Organizations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) in Lebanon, in partnership with the ILO, joined forces to call on national and international, governmental and non-governmental stakeholders to proactively involve OPDs in policymaking and programming related to Social Protection. (ilo.org)
- BEIRUT: Officials from charitable organizations and imams at mosques in Lebanon have raised concerns about their reduced ability during Ramadan this year to help the growing number of people going hungry, as a result of the effects of the financial crisis in the country. (arabnews.com)
- In Lebanon, many ended up in Tyre, 50 miles south of Beirut, where they are staying with relatives or given refuge in schools. (wsiu.org)
- Even before the start of the war in Gaza, Lebanon had been undergoing the overlapping crises of financial collapse, the effects of the COVID pandemic, the explosion of the Beirut port in 2020 and political paralysis that has left the country without a president for more than a year. (wsiu.org)
- Scores of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying to reach Martyrs' Square, the hub of a months-long protest movement calling for changes to Lebanon's political and financial systems. (aljazeera.com)
- Commenting on the developments, Rami Khouri, a journalism professor at the American University of Beirut said that "people are exasperated by what they see as total disdain by their government. (aljazeera.com)
- Three of the mass graves are in Beirut and mentioned in a three-page summary of the findings of the Official Commission of Investigation into the Fate of the Abducted and Disappeared Persons in 2000: the St Demetrious Cemetery in Achrafieh, the Martyrs' Cemetery in Horsh Beirut and the English Cemetery in Tahwita. (amnesty.org)
- Gharam is one of six Syrian refugee women who were offered their first-ever paid job at Recycle Beirut, a year-old Lebanese recycling project that aims to contribute to solving the protracted waste crisis that has plagued Lebanon since 2015. (unhcr.org)
- Demonstrators clash with the Lebanese army and riot police as they try to enter the French embassy during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (kxan.com)
- BEIRUT (AP) - Clashes erupted Tuesday along the Lebanon-Israel border that left five Hezbollah fighters dead, marking the largest number of casualties for the militant group in a single day as tensions with Israel escalate. (kxan.com)
- Beirut seemed calm, quiet and normal a year ago today when President Michael D Higgins, on an official visit to Lebanon, lunched with his counterpart and took tea with the parliamentary speaker. (irishtimes.com)
- Three people were killed and more than 100 were injured in some of the worst street violence in Beirut for years on Tuesday, when a general strike brought the country to a standstill. (truthdig.com)
- Lebanon is a modern city, specifically the capital of Beirut. (visitandcare.com)
- What can we say for Beirut, the Beverly Hills of Lebanon? (visitandcare.com)
- We are now seeing more and more middle-class people in our centers, people who turn to us in despair after the Beirut port explosion led to increased blurring of the lines between the lower and upper sectors of society. (medscape.com)
- An experience that took her to Beirut, Lebanon, where she immersed in the complex dynamics of the region. (lu.se)
- In this project, funded by Sida-Sarec and operated in collaboration with the National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon and the Center National de Télédection, Tunis, Tunisia, this research area is resumed using new technology. (lu.se)
- MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE STUCK IN REFUGEE CAMPS in Beirut live in a socially substandard environment of poverty and outright dangerous housing. (lu.se)
- He has previously worked at the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt, Germany, and the Orient Institute in Beirut, Lebanon. (lu.se)
Lebanese21
- The People's Movement of Lebanon (PML, Arabic: حركة الشعب Harakat Al-Shaeb, Arabic acronym HSB) is a democratic leftist political party with no seats in the Lebanese Parliament. (wikipedia.org)
- The World Bank announcement came after a separate announcement by the U.N. refugee agency and the WFP on Wednesday that they will start making aid payments to refugees in Lebanon in dollars, rather than in Lebanese pounds, with a maximum of $125 per family per month. (go.com)
- The call was made by Lebanese organizations for persons with disabilities in partnership with the ILO, at a joint event which presented a working model for disability inclusion in social protection policymaking and programming. (ilo.org)
- Since war began in Gaza last month, fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia, has flared across the border between Israel and Lebanon. (wsiu.org)
- Lebanon and Hezbollah have fought all-out wars with each other since the Lebanese-based militia was created in 1982 - the year Israel invaded neighboring Lebanon, where it occupied the south for 18 years. (wsiu.org)
- It is based on 50 interviews with Lebanese trans women as well as trans refugees and asylum seekers from other Arab countries, all of whom reside in Lebanon. (gaysonoma.com)
- For Lebanese trans people, living within a geographically small and close-knit society means that family rejection can spiral outward to a sense of rejection by extended families, an entire neighborhood, or even an entire town. (gaysonoma.com)
- And it seems especially unlikely to do so by turning northern Lebanon into rubble, which will only weaken the Lebanese government vis-à-vis Hezbollah. (motherjones.com)
- The Lebanese authorities must step up their efforts to reveal the fate of thousands of people abducted between 1975 and 1990, during the country's civil war, Amnesty International said. (amnesty.org)
- The remains were exhumed by a team of British experts working in co-operation with the Lebanese authorities in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon. (amnesty.org)
- Also Sunday, the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, UNIFIL, said one of its peacekeepers had been wounded by gunfire overnight near the Lebanese town of al-Qawza. (khaleejtimes.com)
- The mother, a Sri Lankan former domestic worker, told Amnesty International that she fled an abusive Lebanese employer almost 20 years ago, thus losing her regular migration status in Lebanon. (hrw.org)
- The Lebanese people were robbed of their history and were unable to participate actively in the fate of their country. (d66.nl)
- We will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the consequences for it and the Lebanese state (will be) devastating," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said while visiting Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon on Sunday. (kron4.com)
- To give you an idea of the scale of this situation, a medical appointment now costs 3 million Lebanese pounds, yet the minimum wage is 450,000 pounds," said Oumayma Farah, vice chairwoman of the Order of Malta in Lebanon. (medscape.com)
- Lebanese people often come to our centers because they're poor, but they're ashamed to be so. (medscape.com)
- Lebanese people come to our community clinics because we are also able to offer them high-quality medication, obtained from donations from TULIPE," said Farah. (medscape.com)
- Unfortunately, many Lebanese people have been hospitalized by taking these contraband drugs, or by being deprived of good quality medicine. (medscape.com)
- According to Elie Haddad, MD, chairman of the EuroLebanese Medical Society, an association uniting healthcare professionals of the Lebanese diaspora to aid their fellow citizens who have remained in Lebanon, "Confessionalism and corruption are the two gaping wounds in Lebanese society. (medscape.com)
- Although the Lebanese people were plunged into a healthcare crisis 2 years ago, refugee populations in their country (numbering approximately 1 million inhabitants) are still cared for by NGOs, said Olivier Routeau, director of operations at Première Urgence Internationale. (medscape.com)
- Upon introspection, Stephanie acknowledges having some apprehension about how people might perceive a mixed team sharing these stories, instead of an all-lebanese team. (lu.se)
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Hezbollah11
- If the IDF couldn't eradicate Hezbollah during its occupation of southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, it's unlikely to do so now. (motherjones.com)
- The escalation comes amid fears that the war could spread into Lebanon, where Hezbollah has expressed strong support to the militant Palestinian group Hamas. (kxan.com)
- Israel has threatened that if Hezbollah opens a new front, all of Lebanon will suffer the consequences. (kxan.com)
- Two more anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon at the Yiftah kibbutz in northern Israel without any casualties, the Israeli army said, adding that it had shelled Hezbollah positions in response. (kxan.com)
- Attacks by Lebanon's Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel's military and rescue services said. (khaleejtimes.com)
- As the Gaza death toll spirals, tensions have also been rising along the tense Lebanon-Israel border, where Hezbollah members have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops since the day after Hamas' rampage into Israel. (kron4.com)
- Israeli officials have said they would retaliate aggressively in case of a cross-border attack by Hezbollah from Lebanon. (kron4.com)
- Fighting subsided but did not completely stop after a ceasefire was reached at a meeting between rival Palestinian factions that included representatives of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah group and its ally Shi'ite Amal movement that hold sway in southern Lebanon. (jpost.com)
- Lebanon: What are the intentions of a bolder, stronger Hezbollah? (yahoo.com)
- Your ardent Hezbollah guy would argue that fighting Israel is more important than worrying about your neighbor's house being blown up in another war," says Nicholas Blanford, a Lebanon-based senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a U.S. think tank. (yahoo.com)
- But pragmatically, the Hezbollah leadership knows that if they are seen as responsible for starting a war that is going to turn Lebanon into a car park, there is going to be a huge backlash against them, not just from Christians and Sunnis and Druze, but from their own [Shiite] constituency," says Mr. Blanford, author of the book "Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel. (yahoo.com)
Clashes12
- The Red Cross said that more than 160 people from both sides were wounded in the clashes. (aljazeera.com)
- The clashes came as skirmishes between the Iran-backed group and Israeli military continue to intensify along the Lebanon-Israel border, threatening to escalate into another front in the Middle East's latest war. (khaleejtimes.com)
- The towns that experienced clashes throughout the period of the Israeli presence in Lebanon, and then during the July 2006 war, are teetering today on the brink of the same scene. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Nasrallah met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials, their first reported meeting since the Hamas-Israel war erupted earlier this month and clashes began along the Lebanon-Israel border. (kron4.com)
- Nasrallah has yet to publicly speak about the war in Gaza and clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border. (kron4.com)
- Clashes resumed in Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp overnight, with heavy gunfire and shelling wounding several people and prompting residents of the camp and the surrounding area to flee Friday. (wjbf.com)
- UNRWA appealed last week for $15.5 million to repair infrastructure damaged in the last round of clashes in the camp, provide alternative education locations for children whose schools were damaged or occupied by militants, and give cash assistance to people who have been displaced from their homes. (wjbf.com)
- At least six people were killed in two days of clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. (jpost.com)
- At least six people were killed in two days of clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where the mainstream faction Fatah fought against rival groups that support Islamists, security sources said. (jpost.com)
- Clashes began the previous day with a failed assassination attempt on a leader of a group sympathetic to hardline Islamists in which one person was killed. (jpost.com)
- Dorothee Klaus, direct of UNRWA in Lebanon, said in a message on the X messaging platform that the agency called "on all militant parties to ensure civilians' safety and respect inviolability of U.N. premises," adding that the clashes damaged two schools run by the U.N. agency. (jpost.com)
- Damages to the school complex in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp from clashes that erupted between factions in the camp over the past week could delay the start of the school year for some 6,000 children, the Lebanon head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday. (kxnet.com)
UNRWA in Lebanon1
Syria10
- The United Nations says one out of five people living in Lebanon are refugees who have fled the conflict in neighboring Syria. (shiatv.net)
- Lebanon has refused to set up official camps for refugees from Syria. (shiatv.net)
- Lebanon currently hosts the highest number of refugees from Syria. (shiatv.net)
- In a bid to stem the flow of fighters and weapons from Lebanon, Syria has replaced its border guards with army troops who are too busy fighting to patrol. (menafn.com)
- Even though it's risky, 40 grammes that would sell for $20 in Lebanon will be sold for $100 in Syria and for $500 when it arrives in Turkey. (menafn.com)
- I have an interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and since I have lived and studied in Syria, I have encountered and spoken to many people about the subject. (lu.se)
- Together with her transnational team from Austria, Lebanon and Syria, she conducted a human rights exhibition on the current state of Lebanon. (lu.se)
- Together with like-minded people from Lebanon and Syria they formed not only a transnational, but also a multiprofessional team, including a fotographer, an anthropologist, an conceptual artist, a translator and a graphic designer. (lu.se)
- Lebanon is also one of the countries that receives the highest number of refugees from Syria, and today nearly 1.5 million refugees live here - in a country with approximately 4.5 million citizens. (lu.se)
- He has research experience in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and is particularly interested in conflict and post-conflict dynamics. (lu.se)
50,000 people2
- The UN agency responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees that provides basic services to nearly 50,000 people living in Ain el-Hilweh said it was suspending all operations in the camp. (jpost.com)
- The fighting has killed at least 13 people, injured dozens more and displaced thousands from the camp, which is home to more than 50,000 people. (kxnet.com)
Israeli12
- An Israeli tank seen overturned by the Damour highway in Lebanon, on June 17, 1982. (wsiu.org)
- Israeli forces and armed groups in Lebanon have engaged in a series of low-level skirmishes since the outbreak of the latest war in Gaza between the Israeli military and the Hamas militant group. (kxan.com)
- This is a war on the home," Halevi said after meeting with Israeli troops near the northern border with Lebanon. (kxan.com)
- The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border. (kxan.com)
- Hamas said that the bodies of three of their militants in Lebanon had been captured by the Israeli military following a cross-border operation on Oct. 14. (kxan.com)
- An Israeli army spokesperson said that air defenses intercepted a drone approaching the border from Lebanon. (kxan.com)
- In separate violence earlier Tuesday, the Israeli military said it killed four militants who had attempted to plant explosive devices on a border wall between Israel and Lebanon. (kxan.com)
- The assault was the most serious incident involving civilians along the Lebanon-Israel border since an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on November 5 killed a woman and three children. (khaleejtimes.com)
- The Israeli military said they identified 15 launches from Lebanon over an hour and their defence systems intercepted four of them. (khaleejtimes.com)
- Hamas' military wing, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for shelling the northern Haifa and the Israeli border towns of Na'ura and Shlomi from southern Lebanon without giving any further details. (khaleejtimes.com)
- Israeli media reported that six people were wounded, including one critically. (khaleejtimes.com)
- Today, their numbers have grown to some 5.9 million people, most in the Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as neighboring countries in the Middle East. (kxnet.com)
Syrian7
- We rejected this because paying Syrian refugees in dollars would make them stay in Lebanon," Hajjar said. (go.com)
- He added that most of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are "economic refugees and not refugees who fled because of security and political reasons. (go.com)
- Sentiments against Syrian refugees in Lebanon have been on the rise since the economic crisis began and since government forces took control of much of the neighboring country. (go.com)
- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed the eight hundred and 48 thousand. (shiatv.net)
- The remains of 24 military personnel were discovered in November 2005, seven months after the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon. (amnesty.org)
- Lebanon is host to more than a million registered Syrian refugees. (unhcr.org)
- The trade has also drawn in Syrian refugees in Lebanon, including Ibrahim, who left his beet field in the Kurdish area of Afrin in northern Aleppo province and produces hashish in Abu Sami's village. (menafn.com)
Gaza3
- Um Majid, like most of those forced to evacuate, remains adamant that the trauma of being forced from their homes does not lessen their support for people of Gaza. (wsiu.org)
- Our path is the path of resistance, whether it's the path of Lebanon or the path of Gaza. (wsiu.org)
- The fighting, triggered by Hamas' deadly incursion into Israel on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, has killed more than 5,700 Palestinians in Gaza. (kron4.com)
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon2
- Although an uneasy calm has prevailed over the past two days, staff from the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have been unable to access the camp to make a full damage assessment or to provide services. (kxnet.com)
- There is an ongoing systematic discrimination against stateless Palestinian refugees in Lebanon - a discrimination that has shaped generations. (lu.se)
Refugees4
- While discrimination impacts virtually all trans women in Lebanon, it is often intensified in the case of trans refugees, who are marginalized on the grounds of both refugee status and gender identity. (gaysonoma.com)
- The project not only benefits Lebanon by contributing to preserve the environment, it also gives dignity and a chance for the most vulnerable refugees to give back to the community that is hosting them in exile," says Mireille Girard, the representative in Lebanon for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. (unhcr.org)
- The project not only benefits Lebanon … it also gives dignity and a chance for the most vulnerable refugees. (unhcr.org)
- Another project concerns refugees and educational reform and in the Middle East, with a focus on higher education among Palestinian young adults in Lebanon. (lu.se)
Hamas3
- The International Organization for Migration reported 19,646 people had been displaced inside Lebanon since Oct. 8, the day after an assault on Israel by Hamas militants. (wsiu.org)
- Israel considers the heavily-armed group in Lebanon an even bigger threat than Hamas. (kxan.com)
- Following the meeting in Lebanon, a brief statement said Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed with Hamas' Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad's leader Ziad al-Nakhleh on the next steps that the three - along with other Iran-backed militants - should take at this "sensitive stage" in the Middle East. (kron4.com)
Palestinians1
- The crisis isn't over for Palestinians seeking refuge in Lebanon. (medscape.com)
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- This category includes photos of people of Lebanon taken in 1991 and images of people of Lebanon in 1991 . (wikimedia.org)
- ages 0-85+) for each type of cancer reported in Portsmouth, NH (1990 census population, 25,925 persons) and New Castle, NH (1990 census population, 840 persons) between 1987 and 1991. (cdc.gov)
- Very few cancer cases were observed in Newington, NH (1990 census population, 990 persons) between 1987 and 1991, thus preventing further analysis. (cdc.gov)
19822
- Israel occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000. (wsiu.org)
- Paris, France - Forty years after the creation of TULIPE, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that gathers funds from pharmaceutical companies to provide an emergency response during times of crisis, in 1982, NGO representatives and TULIPE partners have reviewed the healthcare situation in Lebanon, which is "sinking into the depths of a black hole," according to Alexandre Laridan, TULIPE's director of operations. (medscape.com)
Protesters3
- It barely talks to the people and that is what angers them [the protesters]. (aljazeera.com)
- Lebanon was hit by a nationwide blackout on Saturday night after protesters stormed a substation near the town of Aramoun, the Électricité du Liban (EDL) company announced. (cufi.org)
- The protesters were at the site to demonstrate against long power cuts conducted daily due to the worsening economic crisis in Lebanon. (cufi.org)
Tyre3
- An internally displaced woman feeds her daughter at their room in a school reconverted as a temporary center for internally displaced people on Oct. 25, in Tyre, Lebanon. (wsiu.org)
- TYRE, Lebanon - In this historic port city, history repeats itself in the thud of rockets and the crying of displaced children. (wsiu.org)
- You can also browse the collection for Tyre (Lebanon) or search for Tyre (Lebanon) in all documents . (tufts.edu)
19751
- The empty chairs, symbolizing the empty spaces that the missing left behind, were designed and painted by the brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, wives, daughters, sons, and even grandchildren of people who went missing during armed conflicts since 1975. (icrc.org)
Tensions1
Economic crisis1
- The protest movement rocking Lebanon since October 17 was revived this week, over delays in forming a new cabinet to address the country's acute economic crisis. (aljazeera.com)
20171
- Ever since starting Coffee & Politics in September 2017, I have met the most incredible people. (d66.nl)
Citizens2
- The UK government respects its citizens, which is why they sent experts all the way to Lebanon to look for this man," Sawsan Hirbawi, sister of Ahmed Hirbawi who was kidnapped in 1976, told Amnesty International. (amnesty.org)
- Paris and Berlin issued Interpol notices on Salameh in May, though Lebanon does not hand over its citizens to foreign countries. (centralillinoisproud.com)
Infants1
- The target group for the project was various disadvantageous groups such as young and teenage girls, pregnant women, infants, elderly people, alongside people who are affected by vandalism. (lu.se)
Children10
- The father of the family is Sudanese, the mother is from Sri Lanka, and their five children were born and have always lived in Lebanon. (hrw.org)
- Amnesty International talked to the mother, currently held in a shelter run by Caritas Lebanon with her two youngest children. (hrw.org)
- Following Isin's notion of a performative citizenship , which practices and strategies do children of binational families in Lebanon use to cope with the restrictions imposed by the law and to perform their own form of citizenship? (boell.org)
- Since children are more likely to be bitten or scratched by a dog or other animals, consider rabies vaccination for children traveling to Lebanon. (cdc.gov)
- this condition can occur among persons of any age but is most common in children under 5 years old and the elderly. (cdc.gov)
- The target groups include all elements of society, but especially women, children, and people with disabilities. (lu.se)
- Without the right to own land, the opportunity for good education, and the right to obtain an ID or passport, hundreds of thousands find themselves in limbo, living in permanent rundown refugee camps.As a light in the darkness there is ULYP - Unite Lebanon Youth Project - a non-profit organisation that focuses on children. (lu.se)
- When her father-in-law passed away, he left her a large estate in the mountains - a place that Melek El Nimer has since rebuilt into a recreational and educational facility for children and young people. (lu.se)
- In the short term, it creates a breathing space for the children, and in the longer term ULYP hopes to arouse public opinion and affect the entire education system in Lebanon. (lu.se)
- ULYP's work focusing on children and young people has received an increasing amount of attention. (lu.se)
Incompetent1
- It is only after realizing how incompetent and self-serving the ruling elite was that people started to fight back. (d66.nl)
Https1
- Healthcare providers should continue to routinely ask their patients about their travel history and healthcare facility exposure and to consider a diagnosis of MERS-CoV infection in persons who meet the criteria for patient under investigation (PUI), which has been revised to include considerations of recently being in a Korean healthcare facility and is available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/case-def.html . (cdc.gov)
Charities1
- Meanwhile, the amount of donations received during Ramadan by charities and other groups that provide assistance is expected to fall, which will affect their ability to provide daily iftar meals for the growing numbers of people who are struggling. (arabnews.com)
Safer1
- A spokesperson for Punjab's emergency services, stated to Agence France-Presse, "We rescued 100,000 people and relocated them to safer areas. (lbcgroup.tv)
Disabilities4
- Amidst the great challenges facing the country today and individuals with disabilities, Abdallah expressed his unwavering optimism citing recent milestones and achievements, such as Lebanon's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with DIsabilities earlier this year. (ilo.org)
- What you see here in front of you, this partnership between OPDs and the ILO, is a real-life example of the 'close consultation, active involvement, and full participation' which the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities calls for," said Amer Makarem, manager of the Youth Association of the Blind. (ilo.org)
- Dr. Nawaf Kabbara, president of the National Association for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NARD) - one of the organizers of the event, presented a position paper on the NDA endorsed by the organizers. (ilo.org)
- But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven't reached yet. (specialolympics.org)
Work8
- There are also fewer people volunteering to work in kitchens and deliver the meals. (arabnews.com)
- Accompanying the families in their struggle and addressing their suffering is a vital part of ICRC's work in Lebanon. (icrc.org)
- Work out any costs before you send money to Lebanon with a free estimate. (westernunion.com)
- I believe in community work and the power of a small group of people working together towards a common cause. (d66.nl)
- Meeting like-minded individuals who work for change in a country as difficult as Lebanon makes me believe that hope resides within us, no matter the situation we are in. (d66.nl)
- Additionally, this study argues that these restrictions lead to reactions by the disadvantaged: They are the starting point for political activism and campaigning work to change this law, the reason why support structures beside the state are established, and the driving force for people to decide to leave the country. (boell.org)
- Every day, people at Xylem work to solve the world's toughest water and smart infrastructure challenges. (xylem.com)
- But there's a common thread throughout Jo-Ann's work: with every challenge she solves, she's helping ensure the people in her community have the clean water access they need. (xylem.com)
Civilians1
Different backgrounds1
- I believe in individuals, in building connections with people from different backgrounds and opinions, and in small-scale change. (d66.nl)
News4
- Faten Mneimneh from the Islamic Charitable Guidance and Reform Association told Arab News that because of the financial constraints and fewer volunteers the quality of iftar meals will be lower and less varied during Ramadan this year, at a time when growing numbers of people are going hungry. (arabnews.com)
- Israel responded by striking several areas along the border in southern Lebanon with artillery fire and white phosphorus, the state-run National News Agency in Lebanon reported. (kxan.com)
- On July 18, 1992, an F-2 tornado, packing winds between 113 and 157 mph, briefly touched down about 6:30 p.m. in North Londonderry Township and skipped through the county, also touching down in North Lebanon and Jackson townships, according to a Lebanon Daily News article. (newspapers.com)
- The state-run National News Agency reported 20 people were wounded, including an elderly man, and transported to hospitals overnight. (wjbf.com)
Pounds1
Mediterranean1
Iran1
- This factsheet is from a three part series for LGBTQ people, looking at laws that affect you, your rights and what to do if arrested, and information on sexual health, in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. (article19.org)
Content1
- Selecteer waar jij meer over wil weten en wij helpen je om de juiste content te vinden. (d66.nl)
Report4
- This report focuses on the systemic discrimination that transgender women experience in Lebanon. (gaysonoma.com)
- According to nearly all the people interviewed for this report, the lack of employment opportunities for transgender individuals residing in Lebanon is the most grueling form of discrimination they face. (gaysonoma.com)
- Ill persons (69%) were significantly more likely than controls (0%) to report eating Lebanon bologna. (cdc.gov)
- The project goal was to initiate focus group meetings, to learn young people about the right to housing with a participatory approach, and to bring together and report the suggestions that can offer a solution to the housing problem with the contribution of university students. (lu.se)
Younger3
- They include placing pressure on the government to help relieve unemployment in the younger generation, granting access to soft loans to entrepreneurs with government supervision, stopping the immigration of intelligent people (the brain drain), and creating a planning ministry. (wikipedia.org)
- A second body of a younger person was found at the site but not identified. (amnesty.org)
- Recommended for unvaccinated travelers younger than 60 years old traveling to Lebanon. (cdc.gov)
Approximately1
- Approximately 100,000 people have been evacuated from villages affected by floods in the Pakistani province of Punjab after India released thousands of cubic meters of water into a river shared by the two countries on Sunday, officials announced on Wednesday. (lbcgroup.tv)
Families3
- The sessions of this project helped keep the memory of the missing persons alive by telling their stories and spreading awareness within society about the plight of the families of the missing. (icrc.org)
- It is part of the ICRC's determination to foster a supportive network between the families of the missing, their communities and society", insisted Christophe Martin, Head of the ICRC Delegation in Lebanon. (icrc.org)
- George Washington/Mt Lebanon Cemeteries understands the unique needs of America's veterans and their families. (dignitymemorial.com)
Drawn1
- Attention is drawn to the towns of Rmeish, Ain Ebel, Dibal, and Al-Quzah, which are the four Christian border villages that form what is known as the "Christian Square" in the Bint Jbeil District, southern Lebanon. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Tobacco4
- The elder Hussein, whose family grows olives and tobacco, says instability is a way of life in Lebanon. (wsiu.org)
- In 1998, the Ministry of Public Health established the National Tobacco Control Programme, with collaboration from WHO, and Lebanon ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in December 2005. (who.int)
- Lebanon has taken a significant stride in tobacco control by implementing this law, although concerns persist regarding the tireless tactics and interference of the tobacco industry in impeding its execution. (who.int)
- Lebanon is also actively combating the illicit trade of tobacco products. (who.int)
Talks1
- We have gathered a community of 150 volunteers, and between 30 to 120 people attend each of our talks. (d66.nl)
Barely1
- Today, the town barely counts 3,000 people who refused to abandon their homes and livelihoods and remained here guarding it. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Project3
- Contact the Lebanon Enterprise Development (LED) Project for help. (surveymonkey.com)
- We recently had the privilege of interviewing Stephanie de la Barra, a remarkable individual whose passion project, "Lebanon - In a State of Unrest," is making a profound impact. (lu.se)
- Furthermore the project wanted to inform about the relevant units within the municipality, and to evaluate the requests from young people for the dormitory planned to be built by the municipality. (lu.se)
Increasingly2
- As prices of basic commodities increase in Lebanon, it has become increasingly difficult for most people to afford a proper sahoor or iftar during Ramadan this year. (arabnews.com)
- The audit was among key demands by the international community and the International Monetary Fund, which over the years has increasingly lost confidence in crisis-hit Lebanon. (centralillinoisproud.com)
Israel3
- Both Israel and Lebanon have evacuated for safety tens of thousands of villagers living along that border. (wsiu.org)
- An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon landed in the town of Metula in northern Israel on Tuesday, wounding three people, according to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed. (kxan.com)
- The article seeks to exemplify the degree of trauma suffered by a young man in the bombing of the Shiite community committed by Israel in southern Lebanon in 2006. (bvsalud.org)
Border5
- The southern border town of Qalaia, Lebanon. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- This is happening in light of increasing talk that Lebanon could turn into a second, open front, which instills a deep fear in the hearts of the people of the Christian border region. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- St. George Church in the southern border town of Rmeish, Lebanon. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Regarding whether there is a fear among the residents of the border region that Lebanon will be plunged into a war similar to the one they experienced in 2006, Al-Alam answered: "The only evidence of this is the rapid pace of population displacement due to the bitterness of war they experienced in 2006. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Olive harvest season in the southern border town of Rmeish, Lebanon, in the midst of a crisis situation. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Services1
- George Washington/Mt Lebanon Cemeteries in Adelphi, Maryland, have been providing cemetery services to Prince George County and the Washington, D.C., metro area since 1929. (dignitymemorial.com)
United Nations1
- We are a people who are oppressed and abandoned," she says, blaming the United Nations, the United States and what she called "spineless" Arab countries for again having to leave their home and the ripening olives in the fields in the village of Marwahin. (wsiu.org)
Back4
- He said he was deported back to Sudan in 1998 and arrested, but was released after his father paid a bribe, and returned to Lebanon in 1999. (hrw.org)
- Your aim is 'to bring back politics to the people. (d66.nl)
- Coffee & Politics' mission is to bring back politics to the people. (d66.nl)
- It was there that Stephanie found herself flooded with questions and assumptions about Lebanon by those back home, revealing a profound lack of awareness about the region. (lu.se)
Years4
- Under pressure from the United States, Lebanon has launched eradication campaigns, and in past years, the army bulldozed thousands of hectares of cannabis. (menafn.com)
- Unvaccinated travelers 60 years and older may get vaccinated before traveling to Lebanon. (cdc.gov)
- In 3 years, TULIPE has sent 25 tons of medicinal products to Lebanon," he added. (medscape.com)
- Ill persons range in age from 1 to 70 years, with a median age of 13.5 years. (cdc.gov)
Infection1
- While most people recover within a week, some develop a severe infection. (cdc.gov)
Corruption1
- This campaign evolved out of the You Stink campaign in Lebanon, formed to fight the growing corruption in the government and the buildup of trash. (wikipedia.org)
Discrimination1
- Transgender women-people designated male at birth but who identify and may present themselves as women-face systemic discrimination in education, employment, housing, and the provision of health care in Lebanon. (gaysonoma.com)