Human Rights Watch To Establish Dedicated Beirut Unit

Hassan Elmasry (HRW International):

The Beirut committee of Human Rights Watch brings together committed and influential Lebanese to raise awareness of human rights issues, and to apply pressure at the highest levels to achieve change. They share one vision: a Lebanon and a world … where the rights of all people are respected.

It’s about time. Official Lebanon’s disregard for Human rights is shameless.

The team members have their work cut out for them. Many issues that the HRW considers to be human rights are unpopular with the Lebanese mainstream and the clergy (fight against capital punishment, rights of homosexuals, rights of Palestinians, treatment of foreign domestic workers, women equality under the law)