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This document presents a handbook presents The services offered by Al Dar contribute to supporting women/beneficiaries in enhancing their self-esteem, increasing their life management skills, Providing emotional support, decreasing physical and psychological harm and Enabling women’s long term safety and empowerment. The handbook presents also Al Dar Vision & Mission, what they want to achieve, guiding principles of Al Dar, Services provided by Al Dar and who can benefit from the services of Al Dar

This document presents a practical guide for counselors in UNRWA educational settings in Lebanon. This manual has been developed to provide basic guidance for counselors in the UNRWA education programme in Lebanon who may encounter children who have experienced sexual abuse (CSA) or are at increased risk. The manual draws on the caring for child survivors’ guidelines for health and psychosocial service providers in humanitarian settings developed by International Rescue Committee (IRC) and accompany existing reference documents in the UNRWA education program, specifically the teacher’s toolkit for identifying and responding to students’ diverse needs. The manual is adapted to UNRWA non-specialized psychosocial support and counseling setting in education.

This document presents a joint research report on Shifting Sands Changing gender roles among refugees in Lebanon. The conflict in Syria has created a humanitarian crisis, with almost two million people having fled to neighboring countries in the hope of escaping the violence. Thousands of Syrian refugees continue to enter Lebanon each week, putting increasing pressure on the ability of host communities and aid agencies to provide them with support. The situation has created intense levels of stress for refugees, as in many cases they are forced to take on new responsibilities at odds with their traditional gendered social roles. In order to understand these changing roles, Oxfam and the ABAAD – Resource Centre for Gender Equality conducted a gender situation and vulnerability assessment among Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria now living in Lebanon. The findings are presented in this report, which aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the gendered impact of the Syrian conflict and subsequent displacement on refugees now in Lebanon. The report concludes with detailed recommendations for development and humanitarian practitioners and donor agencies, to help them design and implement gender- sensitive programming that addresses these shifting gender roles and helps to minimize stress and tensions among refugee populations (at individual, household and community levels) and between refugee and host communities.

This document presents a report issued by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, entitled " Reclaiming redefining Rights: Twenty years after the Cairo Conference on Population and Development... Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Middle East and North Africa." The report provides an assessment on the extent of the commitment of countries in the region to achieve the objectives of the work program of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, based on the tracking number of indicators in each of Egypt, Kuwait, Yemen, Palestine, Turkey and Tunisia. And adopted at the various United Nations organs data along with demographic and health surveys of different countries. The report was based on a broad spectrum of how human rights studies and reports to support the quantitative data and statistics, as the work of a team work report a number of interviews with activists and non-governmental organizations working in the countries covered by the report.

This document presents a study providing detailed reports and quantitative classification of the state of women's rights in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It is the first installment of a larger project encompassing the entire MENA region, which will be completed in November 2009. Although the study indicates that a substantial deficit in women’s rights persists in every country of the Gulf region and is reflected in practically every facet of their societies, its findings also include the notable progress achieved over the last five years, particularly in terms of economic and political rights.