Lebanon Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Palestinian refugees resident in Lebanon continue to face discrimination and to be denied access to adequate housing and certain categories of employment. Over half of Palestinian refugees live in decaying and chronically overcrowded camps or in informal gatherings that lack basic infrastructure. Women continue to face widespread discrimination in public and private life. Neither the legal system nor the policies and practices of the state provide adequate protection from violence in the family. Discriminatory practices are permitted under personal status laws, nationality laws, and provisions of the Penal Code relating to violence in the family. Migrant domestic workers continue to receive inadequate protection from workplace exploitation and physical and psychological abuse, including sexual abuse. Lebanon retains the death penalty.
To read more about Amnesty International's human rights concerns regarding Lebanon see Report 2008.
Latest News
Saudi Arabia: Death Sentences Over Saudi 'Sorcery' ClaimsDecember 10, 2009
Lebanon must investigate all civil war mass grave sites
November 25, 2009
Palestinian prisoner released in Lebanon
July 15, 2009
Lebanon: Lebanon's June 7 Elections a Key Opportunity for Human Rights, Says Amnesty International
May 07, 2009
Lebanon: A human rights agenda for the elections
May 07, 2009
Lebanon's elections should pave the way for human rights improvements
May 07, 2009
Latest Reports
Lebanon: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon 'Selective Justice'February 27, 2009
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June 15, 2008
Lebanon: Exiled and suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
October 17, 2007
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Six decades of exile and suffering
October 17, 2007
