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With billions of dollars poised to be injected into revitalizing Lebanon’s road networks, a new coalition of NGOs and experts is preparing to ensure public transport systems aren’t overlooked.
Six organizations launched the TRACS Transportation Coactive, to gather expertise from different transport stakeholders and academics and create a “sustainable transportation plan” to present to Cabinet.
Members of TRACS will be able to support the government’s work when things are going to plan, but “push when things aren’t going right ... so that it takes the sector seriously".

 A group of Palestinian youth in Burj al-Shamali camp in the Tyre area held a sit-in in front of the office of the director of UNRWA in the camp, demanding that officials open the field of work and employment in light of poor economic situation and to allow for an improvement in living conditions.

Hundreds marched in Beirut Saturday in a protest against child marriage to mark International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8.

Despite heavy rain, protesters gathered in Beirut’s Adlieh neighborhood and marched toward the Parliament building in Downtown under the banner “The younger, the more dangerous.”

The protest, which was organized by the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (RDFL) and the National Coalition for Protecting Children from Child Marriage, aimed to pressure Parliament to pass a law to make 18 the minimum legal age for marriage.

فاد مراسل "النشرة" في بعلبك، بأنّ "أهالي بلدة ​حوش الرافقة​، قطعوا طريق غربي بعلبك، احتجاجًا على وفاة ابن بلدتهم "حسين. ك" البالغ من العمر 21 عامًا، بعد معاناة مع مرض ​السرطان​ بسبب تلوث مجرى ​نهر الليطاني​".