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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.

Demonstration in Baalbeck after shop owner assaulted

قدم اصحاب المحال التجارية على قطع الطريق بالاطارات المشتعلة عند مدخل ​بعلبك​ الشمالي قرب ساحة ​مستشفى​ الططري، احتجاجا على اطلاق النار من قبل مسلحين على محل ج. غ. لتصليح كهرباء السيارات، والإقدام على الاعتداء بالضرب على صاحب المحل.

وانتشر ​الجيش اللبناني​ في المحلة، وطالب اصحاب المحال بإقامة حاجز ثابت للجيش بعد تكرار حوادث اطلاق النار على محلاتهم.

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.

Families of missing in Lebanon address elections in new campaign

“The list of disappeared in all of Lebanon” campaign was launched Friday by families of those who went missing during the Civil War, calling on electoral lists running in the upcoming elections to prioritize their cause.

The campaign was announced in a media conference held at the Gibran Khalil Gibran Garden in Downtown Beirut, coinciding with the April 13 anniversary of the beginning of the 15-year conflict.

The families are urging that a law be proposed that seeks to establish an independent national body to reveal the fate of the missing.

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.

Thousands rally at Women's march in Beirut

Thousands took to the streets in Beirut Sunday to voice their “shared anger” on a range of issues facing women in Lebanon to mark International Women’s Day.

The march started at noon under the slogan, “Different Causes, Shared Anger.” Colorful posters and banners spoke out against domestic violence, child marriage and violence targeting domestic workers and trans women.

"We have one struggle, one anger, even though we’re all covering very different grounds," Mira Mawla, an activist from Feminist Network, which helped organize the march, told The Daily Star.

Protest for General Amnesty in Tripoli

Three women and a man were injured Friday after a van drove into a protest in Tripoli’s al-Nour Square held in demand of general amnesty for Islamist prisoners, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Security forces and dozens of residents were seen running after the vehicle in a video posted online by local Facebook news page Tripoli News Network. A person’s screams could be heard in the distance.

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