The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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June 26, 2011

Now Lebanon - Rally for secularism commences in Beirut - June 26, 2011

LBC television reported on Sunday that hundreds of people marched towards the parliament in Beirut demanding an end to Lebanon's confessional system.
Representatives of political parties were absent from the rally, the report added.
However the report did not elaborate any further.
Inspired by the success of uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, several groups demanding an end to the confessional system have sprouted on the social networking site Facebook.


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