On Thursday 13 March at the Residence des Pins, the French Ambassador in Lebanon H.E. Patrice Paoli awarded to the Lebanese Center for Human Rights the Special Mention of the Human Rights Award of the French Republic. This award, created in 1988, intends to reward individual and collective field actions, conducted in France or abroad, about two topics identified every year.
In 2013, the two chosen topics were the assistance and support to internally displaced persons and the Human rights protection in places of deprivation of liberty. CLDH was rewarded for its assistance to vulnerable inmates in the Lebanese prisons by the members of the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights. They welcomed the quality of the work and the relevance of the association’s action.
The legal assistance program of CLDH in the prisons of Lebanon was supported in 2013 by the Open Society Foundation, the Arab Human Rights Fund, the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives and the Swiss Embassy in Lebanon.
The Award Ceremony was followed by a roundtable bringing together NGOs and relevant institutions, Lebanese institutions (Internal Security Forces, General Security, Army, Ministry of Justice, etc.), representatives of the United Nations Agencies and embassies. This roundtable allowed the participants to take stock of the situation in the detention places in Lebanon and of the issue of the access to vulnerable inmates.
In 2013, the two chosen topics were the assistance and support to internally displaced persons and the Human rights protection in places of deprivation of liberty. CLDH was rewarded for its assistance to vulnerable inmates in the Lebanese prisons by the members of the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights. They welcomed the quality of the work and the relevance of the association’s action.
The legal assistance program of CLDH in the prisons of Lebanon was supported in 2013 by the Open Society Foundation, the Arab Human Rights Fund, the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives and the Swiss Embassy in Lebanon.
The Award Ceremony was followed by a roundtable bringing together NGOs and relevant institutions, Lebanese institutions (Internal Security Forces, General Security, Army, Ministry of Justice, etc.), representatives of the United Nations Agencies and embassies. This roundtable allowed the participants to take stock of the situation in the detention places in Lebanon and of the issue of the access to vulnerable inmates.
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