Hezbollah check on rights

Hezbollah check on rights

Morgan Meaker on Hezbollah's check on gay rights.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Clockwise from top left: The historic market in the northern town of Tripoli; all smiles at a political rally in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square; rubbish dumped on the road in north Beirut – the country’s garbage-collection system has collapsed; and a family of Syrian refugees in a UN camp near Zahle, in the Bekaa Valley.   All photos from Alamy and (in the order above) by Mark Pearson, Geoff Dunlop, Char Abumansoor and François Razon.

Country Profile: Lebanon

Civil war, ISIS invasions, mountains of rubbish. Never a dull day in Lebanon. The country’s constant turmoil is exhausting, says Reem Haddad, reporting from Beirut.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018

Maria Soccorro dela Cruz (pictured with her grandson), was sexually and verbally abused while a domestic worker in Lebanon and Syria to support her family in Manila.Photo: Robin Hammond / Panos

Sponsored abuse

A lack of legal protection combined with toxic prejudice leaves migrant workers in Lebanon between a rock and a hard place. But the struggle for rights is under way and, as Fiona Broom reports, it’s coming from the ground up.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Illustration: Sarah John

Beirut, my city

Green shoots of hope spring up among the rubble of discontent, writes Reem Haddad.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016
Moving mountains: in March, trucks began clearing nine months' worth of accumulated rubbish.Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP/Press Association Images

Government garbage U-turn in Lebanon

The sanitation crisis is over, but the government faces further challenges, writes Habib Battah.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Layan, walks along a road in the Bekka Valley, eastern Lebanon. Layan has been supported by Kafa, a Lebanese organization that supports women who have experienced, or are at risk of, exploitation and gender-based violence.Photo: Christian Aid / Tabitha Ross

Five years of Syrian crisis hits women hard

Tabitha Ross describes how the conflict is affecting women exposed to gender-based violence, and the vital work of one Lebanese organization seeking to combat it.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
A Syrian girl stands behind a door in a makeshift settlement Ketermaya, south of Beirut. The village, which has a population of just 15,000, is hosting 5,000 refugees – the same number given sanctuary by Britain over the last four years. Photo: Ali Hashisho/Reuters

‘How can you say no?’

Reem Haddad reports on how Christian Palestinians in Lebanon have welcomed Muslim refugees from Syria.

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NI 489 - Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better - January, 2016
Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

Solar energy could be the answer to Shatila's power problems, writes Lydia James.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
Migrant families ripped apart

Migrant families ripped apart

Sophie Cousins on Lebanon's decision to send home the children of migrant workers.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015
Kholoud and Nidal’s wedding video screening inside their apartment. Though seen as pioneers, they insist they are not fighting religion. ‘We believe in civil marriage as a civil right, and in Lebanon as a non-sectarian regime,’ Khouloud explains.Photo: Nadja Wohlleben

Love unites us

Nadja Wohlleben’s photos capture Lebanon’s silent constitutional revolution.

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NI 471 - The war on whistleblowers - April, 2014

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
A better media is possible June, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better January, 2016
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
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