Who We Are
Family Rights Forum
Established in 2011 by a group of lawyers and civil society activists with extensive expertise in humanitarian and social work, fighting corruption, and raising social and legal awareness among family members and the wider society.
Our organization’s most important goals are to foster a culture of conversation among the Lebanese family members, to raise awareness about human rights, and to achieve gender equality.
Our Main Goals
- Enhancing women's role in community development and empowering women in their society by developing their circumstances.
- Advocating for fair Lebanese legislation for women.
- Combating all forms of discrimination and violence against women.
- Ensuring the implementation of international laws and conventions for women's rights.
- Supporting women's inclusion in decision-making and economic, political, social, and educational spheres.
- Addressing the issue of street-connected children, especially vulnerable Lebanese and refugee girls.
- Providing education and vocational training for women.
- Strengthening media institutions and human resources for women's issues.
- Promoting policies and legal reforms for gender equality, and child wellbeing.
- Collaborating with civil society organizations working on gender equality programs.
Our Mission
We work on creating a more socially just society in which women and girls enjoy all human rights equally, and the child welfare and family justice systems support children to live safely and thrive within their family while strengthening the family and community networks of children who cannot live at home.
Leadership
Providing legal support to women.
Justice
Assisting with our experts’ background at the legal level to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in law.
Our Vision
We envision leadership in family thought through being a reference for the family, particularly women, in terms of raising awareness and providing social, financial, moral, intellectual, and legal support. The organization will focus on legal issues in order to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in legislation, with the vision of creating a society characterized by positive and rational behavior. We work to create a suitable family environment in order to promote social cohesion and stability in Lebanese society.
Rationality
Aiming to create a society characterized by positive and rational behavior.
Cohesion
Creating a suitable family environment in order to promote social cohesion and stability in Lebanese society.