Access to socio-eco rights

Dozens of members of the Lebanese Communist Party held a demonstration beginning outside the Association of Banks in Lebanon Sunday to protest the country’s deteriorating economic situation. Having begun at ABL's headquarters at the entrance to Beirut's Gemmayze district, the protesters marched to Riad al-Solh Square and then to the Lebanese Central Bank. Riot police and Lebanese Army soldiers deployed to the protest and formed a line blocking the entrance to the association's building.

The residents of Charqiyeh staged a sit-in in the town square to protest  the establishment of a landfill for the Nabatiyeh area in the eastern outskirts of their town because of the environmental and health damages, especially since the landfill is intended to be built near residential houses and schools.

Several hundred people gathered in Downtown Beirut to protest against Lebanon’s worsening economic and living conditions for a second consecutive Sunday. Recent events have brought the country’s precarious financial situation to the forefront of public concern. After expanding by just a quarter of a percent in 2018, the economy has not grown in 2019.The protesters gathered in Martyrs’ Square, moved to Riad al-Solh square and then stood outside the Grand Serail. Riot police guarded the government’s headquarters.

A number of angry yung protesters cut off the southern highway at the Ghaziye junction, facing Al-Amelieh cooperative, with flaming tires, in protest of the deteriorating economic and financial situation.