Collective Action

Retired Internal Security Forces members stage a sit-in outside the Interior Ministry to demand better health coverage

وطنية - اعتصم تجمع "متقاعدين قوى الامن الداخلي" امام وزارة الداخلية للمطالبة بحقوقهم  في الطبابة والاستشفاء والدواء، داعين المسؤولين إلى "حل هذه المعضلة ورفع الغبن والاجحاف في حق رجال مؤسسة قوى الامن الداخلي ومتقاعديها بالطبابة".

Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Wednesday that funds have been secured to cover the health care needs of members, both active and retired, of the Internal Security Forces, the state-run National News Agency reported. Retired ISF members held a sit-in earlier today outside the Interior Ministry’s headquarters in Hamra to demand better living conditions amid Lebanon’s ongoing, unprecedented economic crisis. “Additional funds have been secured for the budget devoted to the health care of ISF agents and retired ones,” Mawlawi was quoted by the NNA as saying. Mawlawi also said that “the cabinet will request that credits from the reserves of the 2020 budget be transferred to the ISF budget for this purpose.”

Date: 
April 20, 2022
Actors/ Mobilising structures: 
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) : 
N/A
Mode of Action: 
Sit-in
Objective: 
Reform (advocating for limited change in political, socio-economic etc.)
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA: 
Access to socio-eco rights
Policy Grievances
Spatial characteristics: 
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency: 
Episodic
State response: 
Procedural action

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Village Name: 
Sanayeh
Local Name: 
Moussaytbeh
Caza: