What mobilises Lebanon?
Since 17 October 2019, protests have been ongoing in Lebanon in an unprecedented geographic spread, demanding social justice, accountability, and a political and systemic change in the country.
Lebanon Support has been documenting day by day these mobilisations and publishing content in various formats such as infographics, visuals, mapping, charts, trends among others.
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Featured resources on Collective Actions: from October 2019 - January 2020
Map of Collective Actions in Lebanon
The map tracks mobilisations across Lebanon by groups of people whose goal is to achieve a common objective. Data collection started in 2017 and is ongoing
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Number of collective actions by Actors / Mobilising structures
Number of collective actions by Objective
Number of collective actions by year
Number of collective actions by Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA
Number of collective actions by Mode of Action
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What Mobilises Lebanon? A Look Into Collective Actions from 2017 leading up to October 2019
This visual looks into the build up of the mobilisation in Lebanon, from 2017 until 25 October 2019, highlighting the focus of protests on access to socio-economic rights over the years and leading up to demands for change.
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What mobilises Lebanon? Focus on socio-economic demands
The ongoing protests in Lebanon since October 17 2019, have been largely motivated by demands to access socio-economic rights, which are part and parcel of human rights. This infographic visualises these demands, shedding light on the role of civil society actors in mobilising on these issues throughout the years, and in creating and framing rights-based demands and discourses.
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October 2019 social movements: day by day
18 October 2019
#WhatMobilisesLebanon #LebanonProtests
Since the beginning of the year, over a hundred mobilisations have been mapped on our Map of Collective Actions in Lebanon. A third of these (total of 31 collective actions) were mapped in less than 2 months, since the 1st of September, and directly linked to demands for access to socio-economic rights...
21 October 2019
#WhatMobilisesLebanon #LebanonProtests
The current widespread movement has been ongoing for the past few days, with over 97 collective actions documented on our mapping since Thursday 17 October. This amounts to 33% of all collective actions and protests mapped since the beginning of the year (294 mobilisations so far)....
23 October 2019
#LebanonProtests #WomenPowerPolitics
The current protests since October 17th have notably shed light on demands set forth by many feminist collectives and organisations ranging from the downfall of the sectarian and patriarchal regime, to more specific demands such as a unified personal status law, and the reform of the nationality law to enable women to pass on their nationalities to their families...
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