In response to speculative stories referring to possible UN withdrawal from Lebanon in some media outlets in the past days, the United Nations considers it necessary to deny such unsubstantiated speculations.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in partnership with the Ministry of Industry, launched a safety guidelines developed for the industrial sector entitled "Recommendations and Preventive Measures in Response to COVID-19”, at the Grand Serail.
The initiative has been funded by Italy and Japan, and comes as a preventive measure with the objective of supporting the Ministry of Industry´s efforts to develop and disseminate specific procedures to help the industrial sector to cope with COVID-19 and prevent the spread of the pandemic throughout all processing steps of the value chain.
On this International Women’s Day, the United Nations issues a call to action on women’s rights and gender equality in Lebanon.
We recognize that ‘gender inequality is the overwhelming injustice of our age and the biggest human rights challenge we face’ and that women’s equal rights ‘offer solutions to some of the most intractable problems of our age’, as stated by the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his recent remarks on women and power.
The ILO in Lebanon has issued a guidance brief on how to protect the rights and wellbeing of migrant workers employed by companies and migrant domestic workers employed at homes in light of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The health emergency relating to COVID-19 has aggravated a months-old socio-economic crisis across the country, the brief notes, critically reducing labour and social protection, particularly for the most vulnerable groups in society.
As the Lebanese government battles the COVID-19 pandemic, a dangerous epidemic of misinformation has been circulating through different communication channels and in communities since the beginning of the outbreak preventing people to heed official health warnings.
To counter the growing scourge of fake news, the Ministry of Information is taking further steps and announced today a new communications response initiative in partnership with WHO, UNICEF and UNDP to flood media and social media with facts and science.
This year, the commemoration of International Women’s Day takes place at a pivotal moment in Lebanon’s history.
Having historically stood at the forefront of rights movements, Lebanon’s women have, once again, proven to be a catalyst for social progress by taking the lead in calls for change and reform.
Their efforts to protect the non-violent character of Lebanon’s popular movement and their united stance against a downslide towards strife demonstrated their essential role in building peaceful societies.
