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Lack of labour councils leaves workers unprotected

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Lack of labour councils leaves workers unprotected [IFJ] 04-12-2025


Education International supports union renewal in Lebanon [EI] 17-11-2025


Go Public! Fund Education, from words to action [EI] 13-10-2025


Migrant workers for sale: a journey through the hell of kafala system [Avvenire] 26-07-2025


Stop weaponising defamation laws to intimidate journalists [IFJ] 16-07-2025



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Israel Surge in Israeli army attacks on journalists in southern Lebanon 2026-01-21 [IFJ]

Lack of labour councils leaves workers unprotected 2025-12-04 [IFJ]

Education International supports union renewal in Lebanon 2025-11-17 [EI]

Go Public! Fund Education, from words to action 2025-10-13 [EI]

Migrant workers for sale: a journey through the hell of kafala system 2025-07-26 [Avvenire]

Stop weaponising defamation laws to intimidate journalists 2025-07-16 [IFJ]

Educators’ ongoing fight for fundamental rights 2025-03-30 [EI]

Education International solidarity powers Teachers' Empowerment Initiative 2025-02-15 [EI]

Journalist dismissed over union activities 2025-02-06 [IFJ]

LBCI and MTV media crews assaulted while reporting in southern Lebanon 2025-01-31 [IFJ]

Migrant workers in Lebanon are trying to return home after alleged abuses and then war 2024-12-12 [The Union-Bulletin]

Manal Hdaife on the impact of war on education communities in Lebanon 2024-11-28 [EI]

Israel Eight journalists and media workers killed since the war started in Gaza 2024-10-25 [IFJ]

Israel PSI Statement on the Escalation of Violence in Lebanon 2024-10-24 [PSI]

Teachers appeal for international solidarity 2024-10-22 [MENA SN]

Call to solidarity with unionists, teachers and students 2024-10-22 [Education International]

Global Foreign workers trapped and terrified by Lebanon's conflict 2024-10-21 [The Times]

Update on Lebanon: Testimoney from the president of the order of nurses of Lebanon 2024-10-17 [International Council of Nurses]

Solidarity with Unionists, Teachers, and Students in Lebanon 2024-10-14 [EI]

Lebanon Fear, uncertainty grip Bangladeshi migrants in Lebanon 2024-10-09 [The Herald]

'Their safety matters too': Migrant workers hired by Lebanese families left abandoned, homeless and without passports amid Israel's attacks 2024-10-09 [The New Arab]

Belgium Belgian TV crew assaulted by a group of men in Beirut 2024-10-07 [EFJ]

Lebanon Steelworkers Humanity Fund contributes $20,000 in response to humanitarian crisis in Lebanon 2024-09-30 [USW]

Israel Israeli airstrike kills Al Mayadeen journalist in the south of the country 2024-09-25 [IFJ]

The WFTU condemns the Israeli aggression and the recent attacks in Lebanon 2024-09-25 [WFTU]

Empowering teachers for resilient public education 2024-06-06 [Education International]

WFTU condemns the continuous Israeli aggression in Lebanon 2024-04-02 [WFTU]

Israel Israeli strike kills Al Mayadeen TV reporter and cameraman in Tayr Harfa 2023-11-21 [IFJ]

Israel Israeli strike kills Reuters journalist and injures six others 2023-10-18 [IFJ]

BWI supports Lebanese trade union leader amidst legal harassment 2023-10-04 [BWI]

Lebanon on cusp of network blackout as dispute grows with telecom workers 2023-03-31 [Al-Monitor]

Education in Lebanon – a crisis with no end in sight 2023-02-15 [Education International]

Workshop with PSI Lebanese affiliates 2022-09-07 [PSI]

Ethiopia Abused migrant worker in Lebanon dreams of justice in rare court case 2022-02-17 [N MENA]

My name is Winnie, I survived Lebanon's kafala system 2020-08-28 [Opendemocracy]

Lebanon in revolt 2020-08-12 [Workers liberty]

Lebanon's deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage 2020-08-09 [Open democracy]

Poverty or virus? Lebanon's uprising continues despite the pandemic 2020-05-06 [Opendemocracy]

What the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon 2020-03-22 [Opendemocracy]

Union threatens strike over assaults, insults 2020-01-04 [Zawya]

Lebanon's 'October revolution' : An end to the civil war? 2019-11-13 [Opendemocracy]

“The revolution is changing me. It's making me hope”: young women on the protests in Beirut 2019-11-07 [Opendemocracy]

PPalestinians in Lebanon demand equal labour rights 2019-09-17 [The National]

After strike threat, Lebanese bakers are allowed to hire more Syrians 2019-08-04 [The National]

Government Vows Concrete Actions Availing Foreign Domestic Workers 2019-04-27 [The 961]

Parts of Lebanon go on strike to protest economic conditions 2019-01-04 [Yahoo]

Can matchmaking create happy homes for employers and migrants in Lebanon? 2018-03-02 [Reuter]

Tax hikes to fund public sector pay rise 2017-10-10 [Zawya]

Cabinet vows road map to resolve salary scale crisis 2017-09-29 [Zawya]

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