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Witnessing the quiet dismantling of the Tunisian human rights system and preparing resilience
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025-10-23) Lagoutte, Stéphanie; Shaqqura, Diya
Tunisia illustrates how drastic political shifts can disrupt the functioning of national human rights systems. Most public actors have seen their mandates, roles, and interactions undergo significant changes in recent years. Several avenues can be pursued to support the resilience of Tunisia’s human rights actors.
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Upholding the right to food in emergencies in Africa
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025-10-16) Aboneka, Michael
The right to food is an essential component of human dignity and survival. Africa is prone to hunger due to food insecurity exacerbated by recurring emergencies. Hunger must be considered a human rights-related issue, providing comprehensive diagnosis and solutions.
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Translating Child Safety Norms into Education: A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Morocco
(2025-09-03) Lakkis, Kamila
From how children’s rights to safety are recognized internationally to how it is understood, normalized, and implemented throughout the education systems of Lebanon and Morocco. Investigating how international legal commitments are translated into national policy and reflected in curriculum, school environments, and perspectives. This qualitative comparative case study draws on twenty semi-structured interviews conducted with experts, educators, and parents in both countries, revealing that the concept of "safety" is usually interpreted as physical safety, disguised with morals and values, while subjects such as sexual or emotional abuse or neglect are shadow-banned, leaving no room for child participation or evolving capacities. This research uses norm diffusion and vernacularization theories to examine how an international norm is reshaped in a specific context, by understanding the influence of values, institutional gaps, and political realities on the ground. Lebanon's reality is challenged by instability and a layered crisis, which is reflected in limited resources and gaps in implementing an effective legal framework. While Morocco is more stable, norm translation is still challenged by centralization and bureaucracy. Both cases revealed a high reliance on foreign support. This thesis contributes to a regional discourse in the MENA region around children's rights to safety and participation, calling for a context-sensitive approach in education policy.
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The impact of the Lebanon-Israel war of 2024 on Lebanese displaced adolescent girls: An exploration between theory and reality
(2025-09-03) Khalife, Murielle
The thesis delves into the struggles and sufferings of the Lebanese adolescent girls during the 2024 Lebanon-Israel conflict. It examines the challenges faced by girls that particularly hinder their healthy growth while in displacement, including the complexities of reintegration in post-conflict contexts. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable in humanitarian settings, yet protection mechanisms that would safeguard their rights are often neglected, and are instead receiving similar interventions compared to infants. During this critical phase of development, adolescents are highly susceptible to any stressful events that would lead to prolonged mental health complications. Still, adolescent girls navigate the intersecting vulnerabilities exacerbated by the socio-cultural norms obstructing their well-being. Even though Lebanon ratified both the Conventions on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which would guarantee children’s rights and protection in fragile settings, their application remains paradoxical based on the lived testimonies of the Lebanese displaced girls in the recent displacement that occurred. Thus, the study critically assesses the efficacy of the national emergency plan adopted in 2023 to protect the IDPs against any forms of aggression. Additionally, it examines the Human Rights violations that have exacerbated the quality of life of adolescent girls, while shedding light on the resilience and protective factors that have practically mitigated their psychological burden throughout all cycles of displacement. It also addresses the institutional gaps and challenges in meeting the needs of the targeted population, thereby mitigating further harm to their well-being. Inspired by theorists that have contributed to addressing the research question in all its features, starting from the theory of attachment, ecological model, narrative identities, feminists’ theories on gender and conflicts, with the incorporated three narrative critical case studies that have highlighted the challenges occurred in emergency settings, as a raised voice for the oppressed girls who remain silenced. To support the adolescent girls in future emergencies, a recommendation chapter is dedicated to the voices of the displaced, with the field-based organizations, and the governmental actors. 7 | P a g e Ultimately, the research calls for amending the national emergency plan that could not adequately address the needs of the displaced people, particularly centering the most vulnerable categories at the core, with tailored programs targeting adolescents and youth, where they must actively participate in the preparation of the emergency response plan, as active agents in society.
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Sociopolitical Drivers fostering a Hatred of Convenience: Assessing Lebanese Christians’ Perceptions of Syrian Refugees
(2025-09-03) Diab, Ricardo
The trajectory of protracted refugee populations in Lebanon, notably Syrians, has and remains to be subject to a diverse range of potential outcomes. From the improbable potential of partial or full integration into Lebanese society to eventual repatriation to their homeland, these outcomes are significantly shaped by a complex interplay of socioeconomic stressors, political agendas, and media influence and can often have a huge impact on the lived experiences and access to essential human rights of these individuals. The politicization of migrant populations in Lebanon through external and internal political pressures hinging on international geopolitical strategies as well as local partisan interests respectively has complicated the context considerably. Adding to this, bearing in mind; shifts in state policies since 2011, calls for the obstruction of the principle of nonrefoulement, local sectarian power plays, and the potential for Syrian refugee populations to alter national demographics, perceptions towards these refugees have noticeably differed along sectarian and regional lines. Accounting for these factors, this thesis examines the evolving perceptions of Lebanese Christians in particular toward Syrian refugees, focusing on how socioeconomic crises, political narratives, and media discourses have intensified hostility and normalized hate crimes by this segment of society towards Syrian refugees. The study argues that these factors have cultivated a hatred of convenience (Levy, Goldstein , & Phyllis, 1939), where refugees are scapegoated to divert blame from state failure and to rile up support for Christian political parties. Using a mixed method approach; surveys of Christian Lebanese adults and interviews with experts as well as political and municipal figures, it investigates the correlation between worsening perceptions and discriminatory acts since 2019. By narrowing its scope to Christians in non-refugee-dense areas, this study addresses a neglected dimension of refugee-host dynamics, providing insights into how sectarian memory, economic collapse, and political incitement shape public attitudes and compromise refugee rights