Lebanon: Campaign to End Waste Crisis

Expand Human Rights Watch launched a public campaign on January 19, 2018, calling for an end to Lebanon’s waste crisis. © 2018 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Human Rights Watch will launch a billboard and online campaign on January 19, 2018, to end the waste management crisis in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. The campaign calls for an end to the dangerous practice of open burning of waste and for parliament and the cabinet to adopt a national waste management law and strategy that cover the entire country and comply with environmental and public health best practices and international…

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