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Two public hospitals close in salary protest

Employees at government-run hospitals in Kesrouan and Baalbeck announced the closure of their facilities to all patients, in an escalation of an ongoing protest over delayed wage hikes.

Sidon public hospital employees strike, demanding raise

Employees of Sidon’s governmental hospital Wednesday held a demonstration in front of the entrance to the emergency wing, marking the second day of their latest strike to protest the delayed implementation of the salary scale law.

The protest was held in compliance with a decision from the Public Hospital Workers Syndicate in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The hospital’s employees have closed the hospital’s clinics repeatedly in routine strikes demanding a pay hike, but measures are consistently taken to keep the emergency room open.

Sidon public hospital employees strike, demanding raise

Employees of Sidon’s governmental hospital held a demonstration in front of the entrance to the emergency wing, marking the second day of their latest strike to protest the delayed implementation of the salary scale law.

EDL workers, LU lecturers protest outside Baabda Palace

Electricite du Liban contract workers and Lebanese University lecturers kicked off a demonstration in front of Baabda Palace Thursday, minutes before the start of a Cabinet session.

The protesters blocked roads around the palace, while riot police and guards tightened security, the state-run National News Agency reported.

“Do justice to the workers who aren’t getting wages or social security,” the head of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers, Bechara Asmar, said at the protest.

EDL workers blocked Emile Lahoud highway

أفادت "​غرفة التحكم المروري​" التابعة لقوى الأمن الداخلي، بـ"قطع الطريق على أوتوستراد الرئيس إميل لحود، من قبل مياومي مؤسسة "كهرباء لبنان"".

وكان قد أشار متحدث بإسم المياومين المعتصمين أمام وزارة الطاقة، إلى أنّ "ألف عائلة مرميّة في الشارع بعد انتهاء العقد مع شركة "دباس"، والأهم أنّ معضلتهم من دون أمل ومن دون حلّ واضح للمستقبل".

Public hospital employees start open-ended strike

Employees of Lebanon’s public hospitals began an open-ended strike to protest the delayed implementation of the new salary scale.

Hundreds of protesters gathered around Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, calling on government officials to work to apply the salary scale to their paychecks as soon as possible.

“How are they going to preserve your rights?” one activist asked, in a direct address to those employees working “for humanitarian causes.”

Forest rangers protest at Baabda against stalled appointments

Successful applicants for the government’s forest ranger service held a protest near the presidential palace in Baabda to coincide with Wednesdays Cabinet session, calling on the government to issue decrees appointing them to their jobs.

The protesters called on Prime Minister Saad Hariri and President Michel Aoun to issue the appointments, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Successful civil service applicants for a number of public institutions, including forest rangers, have been protesting against the delay of their appointments in recent months.

Women protest for right to pass citizenship to their children

Hundreds of women and children gathered in Riad al-Solh Square in Downtown Beirut Friday to protest a law that forbids Lebanese women to pass their citizenship onto their children. The sit-in was organized by the “My nationality is a right for me and my family” campaign which holds an event annually around Mother’s Day.

This year, with the May 6 parliamentary elections approaching, the campaign adopted the slogan, “My vote = my right,” insisting that only candidates that support women’s rights will get their vote.

UNRWA, Palestinian students urge funding ahead of Rome conference

Hundreds of Palestinian students, alongside UNRWA officials, took part in an event Monday urging vital funding for the agency ahead of a Rome donor conference slated for March 15.

Students of the UNRWA-funded Birzeit and Beit Jala schools in the Mount Lebanon town of Sibline danced Palestinian-style dabkeh and flew paper kites bearing UNRWA’s “Dignity is Priceless” slogan, in the latest public bid for international funding for the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency.

Palestinian students protest UNRWA cuts

Hundreds of uniformed students demonstrated in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp Thursday to protest against recent U.S. funding cuts to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Children wore traditional keffiyehs and waved Palestinian flags, with some holding blue balloons and posters with slogans supporting UNRWA’s “Dignity is Priceless” fundraising campaign, launched in January to raise $500 million after the United States’ decision to cut aid money to the agency.

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