Millions of individuals in the region face discrimination, persecution, and even violence. HCI implements programs that protect and support these individuals and encourage peace through nonviolent conflict resolution. The rights of women and girls is a critical issue in this sector, and is incorporated in many of HCI’s programs. HCI also focuses on rights of people with special needs, refugees, displaced people and migrant workers. HCI’s approach to civil society development emphasizes cross-cultural understanding and empowerment of vulnerable and under-represented members of society.
Protection and Human Rights
HCI Welcomes Lebanon’s New Steps Towards Gender Equality
Lebanon, Protection and Human Rights
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May 232011
HCI welcomes and supports the proposed new amendments to the Lebanese laws and congratulates the individuals as well the organizations that worked so hard to make this possible. HCI is delighted to hear that on Monday 16 May, the Committee on the Administration of Justice has voted to approve the proposed abolishment of the medieval [...]
Protection and Human Rights in 2010, the HCI Way
Featured Stories from the Field, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Protection and Human Rights, Sudan, Woman
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Mar 312011
Millions of individuals in the region face discrimination, persecution, and even violence solely because of their ethnicity, beliefs, language or social class. Their path out of poverty is especially challenging. HCI helps them to be heard and recognized so they can exchange oppression for opportunity. In 2010, HCI built the capacity of a diverse group [...]
Ending the Indifference: HCI Joins in Raising Awareness of the Plight of Migrant Women Workers in Lebanon
Lebanon, Protection and Human Rights, Woman, Workers
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May 042010
According to recent statistics around 200,000 women migrant domestic workers live in Lebanon working as housemaids, and nannies. The domestic nature of their work creates special relationships with their employers. Most migrant workers reside with a family, as the contract they sign requires that their employers to offer a shelter. The Lebanese government recently approved [...]
Video: HCI presents The Happiness Forest: Bringing Together and Empowering Iraqi Refugees and Their Hosts
Children, Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Video
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Feb 042010
A group of underprivileged Iraqi and Jordanian children volunteers met after school over couple of months to rehearse for a play called The Happiness Forest. The play served as a safe and effective space for the children to learn lessons on peaceful coexistence, pluralism, gender equality, tolerance and non-violence. The play was debut on the [...]
The Happiness Forest: Bringing Together and Empowering Iraqi Refugees and Their Hosts
Education and Empowerment, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Youth
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Jun 102009
Jordan hosts around 500,000 Iraqi refugees among which about two thirds are children and youth below the age of twenty four. A large number of them are known to be physically, psychologically, and/or economically vulnerable. In the poor neighborhoods of Amman deprivation and the limited availability of resources create tensions between low income Jordanians and [...]
Aid for Change: A New Initiative Supporting Iraqi Refugees in Need
Children, Disability, Emergency and Transition, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Woman
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Mar 122009
HCI team in Jordan was busy last month in Jordan launching its new initiative for Iraqi refugees living in Jordan: the Aid for Change initiative, aiding vulnerable people with the aim to change their lives through self-help and self-directedness. This new initiative will be implemented in partnership with the Jordan-based New Development Organization. It will [...]
Iraqi Refugees: A Celebration of Being Accepted, Being Taken Care Of
Disability, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Zarqa
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Sep 242008
“It is like a celebration of being accepted, being taken care of and being supported,” commented one of the Iraqi refugees in Zarqa, Jordan, who was receiving medical equipments provided by HCI. She is one of many Iraqis benefited from HCI long-time project helping Iraqi refugees, particularly those with special needs, with relief supplies, medical [...]
Layla, and her right to be given the opportunity for a better future
Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Zarqa
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Jul 182008
Physical and psychological disability among Iraqi refugees in Jordan is known to be very high, with higher rates among children and youth. About two thirds of disabled Iraqis are children and youth below the age of 24. Layla, age six years, is the daughter of an Iraqi family who fled the conflicts in Bghdad in [...]
Helping people one person at a time: the case of Rahma
Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Zarqa
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Jul 162008
Rahma Kouzah, age twenty months, has a severely deformed skull and her eyes bulge out. She lives with her mother Samia and her brother Ahmed age 6 years in Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city, in small rented but untenable house lacking basic amenities. Her parents, from Palestinian origins, fled the conflicts in Baghdad in 2006 [...]
