Lebanon: Planning Lapses Endanger School Year

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Students sit inside a school bus at the end of their school day in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. Lebanese students are returning to schools, many for the first time since late 2019, but the country's crippling economic crisis is threatening to derail the first in-class academic year after the pandemic © AP Photo/Bilal Hussein (Beirut) – The education system in Lebanon is at risk of collapse, with devastating consequences for children, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities’ egregious planning failures have aggravated the impact of the country’s…

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