Lebanon: Political Parties Shun Rights Issues

Expand Candidates for Lebanon’s parliamentary elections should commit to human rights reforms. (Beirut) – Twenty-seven candidates and some parties running in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections on May 6, 2018, have made public commitments to strengthen human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. But none of the parties in the current cabinet were willing to make public commitments in response to a Human Rights Watch letter urging them to commit to human rights reforms on 10 issues. The new independent parties Libaladi, Kelna Beirut, You Stink, and individual candidates committed…

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