1745: A New Hotline to Report Domestic Violence in #Lebanon

In collaboration with the NGOs KAFA Violence & Exploitation, the United Nations Population Fund and the National Commission For Lebanese Women , the Lebanese internal security forces have issued a new hotline "1745" to receive domestic violence complaints, and the following video to promote the campaign:

So What if Nishan hosted a Male Stripper?

When I saw the video of a male stripper performing on Nishan's new show on Al Jadeed, I was like why are all these TVs sinking to new lows but then I looked up the whole episode and it was a rather interesting one. Showing the guy stripping without watching the whole 1-hour episode will obviously shock people but the topic at hand was rather well dealt with and I encourage everyone to watch the…
Lebanon

#Dawwi_3alGhalat: Himaya Launches New Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse

5 years ago
One out of six kids in Lebanon are victims of a kind of sexual abuse. The number is scary but it’s true and the only way to prevent further child abuse is by reporting them. ...
Lebanon

Divorced Lebanese Women To have Children Listed in Family Register

5 years ago
When a woman gets married in Lebanon, her name is removed from her father’s family register and added to her husband’s. However in the event of a divorce, the woman’s register is moved back to ...
Lebanon

Greenpeace’s #Plastacna Campaign Gains Momentum in Lebanon

5 years ago
It seems like the garbage crisis in Lebanon has only gotten worse over the years, with sustainable solutions to the crisis nowhere to be found and carcinogenic and environmentally deadly solutions being proposed by the ...
Baladi

Twelve Year Old Girl Mechanic Video Goes Viral, Gets Dream Job

5 years ago
A lot of children are forced into child labor in Lebanon, and the authorities have made little progress to reduce child abuse. In fact, things have worsened ever since the Syrian crisis began whether thousands ...
Baladi

Ozzy Ehden: An Amazing Restaurant’s Message

5 years ago
Jacqueline Makari lost her son to illness and decided to open a restaurant and recruit only employees with mental health problems, to make Ozzy the first of its kind in Lebanon and send out an ...
Critiques

A Great Campaign in Support of Domestic Workers’ Rights

5 years ago
When a group of Lebanese women were asked on the challenges their face at home or at work, and what they’d wish their employers would change, they replied asking for shorter working hours, a longer ...
Critiques

There Were 100 Deaths by Suicide in Lebanon This Year So Far

5 years ago
ISF stats reported 100 deaths by suicide so far this year in Lebanon, versus 143 in the year 2017. If we take May by itself, the numbers are quite shocking as 23 death by suicide ...
Baladi

LAU’s Dr. Lina Abirafeh Among The World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy

5 years ago
Lebanese-Palestinian Lina Rafeh, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University, was included on the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2018, a ...
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