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“Our Lives Are Like Death”

Syrian Refugee Returns from Lebanon and Jordan

The 72-page report “‘Our Lives are Like Death’: Syrian Refugee Returns from Lebanon and Jordan ,” found that Syria is not safe for return. Among 65 returnees or family members interviewed, Human Rights Watch documented 21 cases of arrest and arbitrary detention, 13 cases of torture, 3 kidnappings, 5 extrajudicial killings, 17 enforced disappearances and 1 case of alleged sexual violence.

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  • Without Protection

    How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers

    This 54-page report reviews 114 Lebanese judicial decisions affecting migrant domestic workers. It finds that lack of accessible complaint mechanisms, lengthy judicial procedures, and restrictive visa policies dissuade many workers from filing or pursuing complaints against their employers.

  • Slow Reform

    Protection of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia and the Middle East

    This 26-page report reviews conditions in eight countries with large numbers of migrant domestic workers: Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Singapore, and Malaysia.

  • Flooding South Lebanon

    Israel’s Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006

    In this 131-page report, Human Rights Watch found that Israel violated international humanitarian law in its indiscriminate and disproportionate cluster munition attacks on Lebanon. The report provides the most comprehensive and detailed account yet of the nature and impact of Israel’s use of cluster munitions.

  • Rot Here or Die There

    Bleak Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon

    This 66-page report documents the Lebanese government’s failure to provide a legal status for Iraqi refugees in Lebanon and details the impact of thi

  • Why They Died

    Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War

    This 249-page report represents the most extensive investigation to date of civilian deaths in Lebanon during the war.

  • Civilians under Assault

    Hezbollah’s Rocket Attacks on Israel in the 2006 War

    This 128-page report presents more than 20 case studies based on extensive field research in northern Israel into rocket attacks that killed or injured civilians in Jewish, Arab and mixed villages, towns and cities.

  • The “Hoax” That Wasn’t

    The July 23 Qana Ambulance Attack

    During the Israel-Hezbollah war, Israel was accused by Human Rights Watch and numerous local and international media outlets of attacking two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances in Qana on July 23, 2006.

  • Fatal Strikes

    Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon

    This report documents serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war) by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Lebanon between July 12 and July 27, 2006, as well as the July 30 attack in Qana.

  • Israel/Lebanon: Persona Non Grata

    The Expulsion of Civilians from Israeli-Occupied Lebanon

    For more than a decade, Israel and its auxiliary Lebanese militia have been expelling innocent civilians from their homes and villages in south Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today.

  • "Operation Grapes of Wrath"

    The Civilian Victims

    In this report, Human Rights Watch examines the activities of Israeli military forces and Lebanese guerrillas during the escalation of military activities that raged in Lebanon and parts of northern Israel from April 11 to 27, 1996 -- code-named "Operation Grapes of Wrath" by Israel.

  • Syria/Lebanon: An Alliance Beyond the Law

    Enforced Disappearances in Lebanon

    An unknown number of Lebanese citizens and stateless Palestinians are imprisoned in Syria: some of them “disappeared” in Lebanon as long ago as the 1980s.

  • Restrictions on Broadcasting: In Whose Interest?

    Lebanon's airwaves had long been unregulated, with scores of unlicensed private broadcasters that ranged in political diversity from the radio station of the Lebanese Communist Party to the television station of Hizballah.

  • Civilian Pawns

    Laws of War Violations and the Use of Weapons on the Israel-Lebanon Border

    For over a decade, a conflict has raged on the border of Israel and Lebanon, where Israel occupies a large section of Lebanese territory. Civilians have been the principal targets and victims in this conflict.

  • All Demonstrations Banned

    Israel/PLO Peace Accord Opponents Killed

    On September 13, 1993, as Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization met in Washington to sign an interim self-rule accord for Gaza and Jericho, protestors against this agreement were killed and injured in Beirut by Lebanese Army troops.