Lebanon

MEDC’s work on Lebanon covers topics such as governance, corruption, civil society, and U.S. assistance.

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Yemen

Jun 2023

Statement

Joint Statement – MENA States Must End Torture and Hold Perpetrators Accountable

Apr 2023

Between the Lines

Between the Lines: Rima Majed on the Unmet Promise of Lebanon’s 2019 Uprising

Ramzi El Habre, Rima Majed

Sep 2021

Report

Report – Back to Business as Usual: President Biden’s First Foreign Affairs Budget for the Middle East and North Africa

Seth Binder

Aug 2021

Statement

Joint Statement: Enforced Disappearances in MENA

Jun 2021

CSP ,
Expert Q&A

Expert Q&A – Beyond Rhetoric: How Should the Biden Administration Support Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa?

Hanan Abdulhadi, Amy Hawthorne

Letters and Statements

Apr 2023

Joint Statement – Global Legal and Rule of Law Community Stands in Solidarity with Lebanese Lawyer Nizar Saghieh

Jun 2021

Joint Letter to the Human Rights Council calling for an International Investigative Mission into the Beirut Blast

MEDC in the News

“The U.S. supporting proxy forces in Lebanon is part of a decades-long, overly militarized policy towards the Middle East that has ignored the root causes of the region’s turmoil and struggles and not brought the peace or stability Americans have been promised.”

The Intercept

, 10/24/2023

Seth Binder

“It’s hard to see how [Lebanon] can absorb any more [refugees]… It really does make the absence of an off-ramp to these conflicts and the return of refugees a ticking time bomb.”