Society

Lebanon has won six places in the World Bank's 2026 global ranking on women's economic rights, but its score of 46.8 out of 100 for the legal pillar remains well below the world average. The country appears particularly weak on support frameworks and on the effective application of the rules. This gap between written law, institutions and economic reality limits women's autonomy and hinders productive potential.

In Lebanon at war, detainees and families become the forgotten of an emergency saturated by strikes and diplomacy. Between institutional silence, endless expectation and the recurring issue of the general amnesty, their fate reveals the fragility of the state, justice and the right to a clear response.

In Lebanon, the war feeds a parallel economy of scams, abusive housing and false intermediaries. With more than 500,000 internally displaced persons and 45 per cent inflation, the crisis is turning the emergency into a market and exposing the most vulnerable to predation that worsens their survival.

With over 800,000 displaced, Lebanon is entering a new geography of emergency. The South is emptying, Beirut and Mount Lebanon are saturating and collective centres are increasing, transforming the territory into a space of forced circulation and lasting humanitarian crisis.

In Beirut, the expansion of strikes and the massive influx of internally displaced persons fuel neighbourhood filtering, suspicion and logic of local protection. The Lebanese capital is facing a growing risk of security fragmentation, without any change in formal militia order, where fear is re-establishing access to the common city.