Their rights, already denied by the country’s Kafala system, are further threatened by COVID-19 movement restrictions.
Without government support, this state of medical emergency may prove hellish for many.
Who will benefit from legalizing marijuana? Similar to the tobacco industry, it most certainly is not the cannabis farmers.
More often than not, vocal critics within Hezbollah's local community are harassed and pressured into issuing formal and public apologies.
“I am the head of this association for the entire country, all lawyers and all people."
The new ministerial make-up and policy statement formula take the country not only back to October 16, but even prior to 2005.
In this video, we follow the detailed stories of 3 protesters from the moment they were arrested to the moment...
The MPs said the project was an example of the “failed policy” that Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets to oppose.
Corruption, bribery, dissatisfaction, and some hope amidst the chaos.
People have waited for too long to give additional chances for those in power to accept piecemeal and sequential reforms. Their economic welfare is no longer separable from their political dignity, especially when insults to their lives –and their intelligence– are perpetrated on a daily basis.
When access to social services is used as a deliberate strategy by politicians to gain support, healthcare inequalities are exacerbated.
Google searches for political, economic, and revolution-related terms in Lebanon have spiked in the past three months, when anti-government protests began.