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JUSTICIA’s Main Activities and Accomplishments.
  1. Coordinating and redrafting the National Human Rights Action Plan for Lebanon for the Lebanese Parliament with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Lebanon and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): (2008 – Present).
    The Action Plan covers twenty-three topics related to different human rights and development needs in Lebanon. The topics involve:

    • -Women’s Rights
    • -Children’s Rights
    • -Labor Law and Social Security
    • -Right to Access to Culture
    • -Right to Education
    • -Rights of Migrant Workers
    • -Right to Adequate Housing
    • -Rights of People with Disabilities
    • -Right to Health
    • -Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment
    • -Enforced Disappearance
    • -Prisons
    • -Independence of the Judiciary
    • -Wiretapping
    • -Torture
    • -Juvenile Justice
    • -Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
    • -Freedom of Association
    • -Criminal Law
    • -Criminal Procedure
    • -Death Penalty
    • -Economic and Social Rights of Palestinian Refugees
    • -Economic and Social Rights of Non-Palestinian Refugees

    JUSTICIA has developed a study covering each topic. The study analyzes the international conventions applicable to each topic, the legal status and legislation concerning these topics in Lebanon, the current status of the topic and the actions Lebanon is taking to address and/or promote each topic, and finally the study puts forward relevant recommendations for future action.

    The Human Rights Parliamentary Committee is soon to adopt this Action Plan in order to submit it to the Parliament for a vote so that it will be enforceable in the Lebanese Republic for the next five years (2012 - 2017).
  2. Participating in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the Council of Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland on December 10, 2010. JUSTICIA also participated in the preparations for the review and assisted in writing the report of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations working on the UPR in Lebanon.
  3. Supporting legal aid for low-income citizens by presenting several programs and conferences with the assistance of the American Bar Association and the Arabic Council of Legal and Judicial Studies (2010- 2011).
  4. Leading Lebanese civil society organizations in the “Building up Human Rights in Lebanon through the Mechanisms of the UPR” project with the contribution of the Arabic Fund for Human Rights (2011).
  5. Providing the World Bank with specialized studies on enhancing the delivery of justice sector services to the poor and resolving land related disputes in Lebanon.
  6. Drafting a proposed law to enable mothers to grant their nationality to their children as part of the campaign led by the National Committee for Women’s Rights with the support of the UNDP.
  7. Authoring the study that set forth the means by which women could lawfully open bank accounts for their minor children in Lebanon in connection with the campaign organized by the Institute of Progressive Women (IPW). The study was adopted by the Banks Association of Lebanon (2010).
  8. Authoring a legal study supporting the right of women to travel with their minor children as part of another campaign organized by the IPW. The study is being currently discussed by the General Directorate of the General Security (2011).
  9. Delivering English language courses (American Corners) in remote areas of Lebanon, project funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) (2010).
  10. Coordinating with other Lebanese civil society organizations and cooperating with international organizations, mainly the European Union and the regional office of UNESCO to promote development programs and support citizen rights.
  11. Facilitating citizens’access to justice by including on JUSTICIA website answers to common questions and complaints (along with samples of request forms to the Public Administration) by authoring books and publications enlightening citizens about their rights and how to assert them. The “To Be Equal Under the Law” project was accomplished with the support of the Amideast/USAID program. These publications could be downloaded from the website and include:
    -Municipal Rights. Beirut. 166 p., 2011.
    -Taxpayers’ Rights. Beirut. 80 p., 2011.
    -Bank Customers’ Rights. Beirut. 134 p., 2011.
    -Employees’ Rights. Beirut. 69 p., 2010.
    -Patients’ Rights. Beirut. 87 p., 2010.
    -Businessmen’s Rights. Beirut. 94 p., 2010.
     
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