Executive summary:

Civil Rights and Liberties – Lebanon’s 4th Cycle UPR Review (July 2025), a report prepared by eight human rights organizations: ALEF – Act for Human Rights, Anti-Racism Movement (ARM), Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH), Cedar Centre for Legal Studies (CCLS), Committee of the Families of the Missing, World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), Ruwad Houkouk – Frontiers Rights, and Proud Lebanon.

This joint submission offers a comprehensive overview of Lebanon’s human rights landscape ahead of its Universal Periodic Review. It documents systemic violations across key areas including the right to life and security, migrant rights, legal identity, judicial independence, family life, privacy, and enforced disappearances.

The report underscores Lebanon’s failure to implement previous UPR recommendations and its continued non-compliance with international obligations. It highlights how legal gaps, political interference, and discriminatory practices have deepened the vulnerability of marginalized groups, and calls for urgent, rights-based reforms to promote justice, accountability, and equality.

Here is, the full report.