Cedar Centre For Legal Studies

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Reflections on Lebanon’s Fourth UPR Cycle: Civil and Political Rights Between Commitments and Reality

Reflections on Lebanon’s Fourth UPR Cycle: Civil and Political Rights Between Commitments and Reality February 19, 2026 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 10:46 am Saadeddine Shatila Lebanon’s fourth cycle under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place amid a profound political, economic, and...

Input for the Project of Joint Statement on Enforced Disappearances in the Context of Transnational Repression

Input for the Project of Joint Statement on Enforced Disappearances in the Context of Transnational Repression February 18, 2026 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 9:51 am Enforced disappearance remains one of the gravest violations of human rights, combining elements of arbitrary detention, torture...

Statement Issued by Cedar Centre for Legal Studies on the Occasion of 6 February 2026: The International Day of Remembrance for the Dead and Missing at Borders and at Sea

Statement Issued by Cedar Centre for Legal Studies on the Occasion of 6 February 2026: The International Day of Remembrance for the Dead and Missing at Borders and at Sea February 6, 2026 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 11:38 am On 6 February of each year, the world dedicates a day to commemorate...

Cedar Center for Legal Studies Joins the Lebanon Humanitarian & Development NGOs Forum (LHDF)

Cedar Center for Legal Studies Joins the Lebanon Humanitarian & Development NGOs Forum (LHDF) February 4, 2026 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 9:49 am Cedar Centre for Legal Studies is pleased to announce its joining of the Lebanon Humanitarian & Development NGOs Forum (LHDF) , which works to...

Lebanon UPR 2026 and Side Events, with CCLS Contributions in Geneva

Lebanon UPR 2026 and Side Events, with CCLS Contributions in Geneva January 23, 2026 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 11:04 am On 19 January 2026, during Lebanon’s Universal Periodic Review, Cedar Centre for Legal Studies (CCLS) contributed in two critical side events held at the Palais des Nations in...

One year since the arrest of Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: a year of complicity, enforced disappearance, and diplomatic failure

One year since the arrest of Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: a year of complicity, enforced disappearance, and diplomatic failure December 28, 2025 Cedar Centre for Legal Studies 10:10 am 28 December 2025 Today, 28 December 2025, marks one year since the arrest of Egyptian–Turkish poet and opposition...