2021-01-14 | By middleeastmonitor | 126 Hits

Human rights in Lebanon have seen the most drastic deterioration in decades according to the Human Rights Watch39s HRWWorld Report 2021 The country39s poverty rate doubled in 2020 as a result of an unprecedented economic crisis the coronavirus pandemic and the 4 AugustBeirut port explosion quotWith each passing day the lives of Lebanon39s citizens migrants and refugees is becoming more unbearablequot said Aya Majzoub HRW39s Lebanon researcher The collapse of Lebanon39s currency compounded by rapidly rising food and >>READ MORE