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Syrian refugees in Lebanon: For a policy framework that upholds refugee rights and safeguards Lebanon’s interests

May 28, 2024 |   Press Release  

Karim Bitar succeeds Albert Kostanian as head of Kulluna Irada

November 10, 2023 |   Press Release  

SWF for Lebanon: Shortfalls of the Current Approach and Recommendations for the Way Forward

August 16, 2023 |   Position Paper  

A Joint Letter Calling on the Human Rights Council to Establish a Fact-finding Mission into the Beirut Port Blast

August 3, 2023 |   Press Release  

Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: A Way Forward to Manage the Crisis and Ensure the Right of Return

June 15, 2023 |   Position Paper  

Kulluna Irada in a Meeting with IMF delegation: The Establishment Has Been Using Negotiations as a Means to Buy Time

March 20, 2023 |   Press Release  

Joint statement on the Visit of the European Judicial Delegation

January 13, 2023 |   Press Release  

Accountability for those Responsible for the Financial Crisis

January 11, 2023 |   Press Release  

Bank Secrecy: A Fortified Wall Despite Significant Breaches

October 26, 2022 |   Press Release  

Consecrating Bank Secrecy Under the Banner of Lifting It

October 17, 2022 |   Position Paper  

Two Years After August 4: No State Without Justice

August 3, 2022 |   Press Release  

Public Assets Belong to All Lebanese And Should Not Used to Offset Financial Sector Losses

June 8, 2022 |   Position Paper  

A Staff-Level Agreement with the IMF Remains Ink on Paper Unless it Materializes into Real Actions

April 8, 2022 |   Press Release  

Draft Budget 2022: Another Ineffective, Unjust and Piece-meal Tool

January 25, 2022 |   Press Release  

A Fair and Efficient Capital Control Law is Needed

December 10, 2021 |   Position Paper  

Kulluna Irada and Nahwal Watan unite their efforts

October 28, 2021 |   Press Release  

Joint Communiqué Issued by the members of the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) of the 3RF

October 27, 2021 |   Press Release  

Call for an International Investigative Mission into the Beirut Blast

September 15, 2021 |   Press Release  

Joint Communiqué Issued by the members of the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) of the 3RF

September 7, 2021 |   Press Release  

Diaspora Participation in Lebanon’s 2022 Elections: Cancelling the Six Seats Allocated to Expats

September 5, 2021 |   Position Paper  

The Disorderly Removal of Subsidy is yet Another Criminal Policy

August 20, 2021 |   Position Paper  

Joint Communiqué Issued by the members of the Independent Oversight Board of the 3RF

July 29, 2021 |   Press Release  

Lebanon’s IMF SDRs: Let us not waste another billion dollars!

July 20, 2021 |   Position Paper  

IJC Statement: Support in the Battle to Lift Legal Immunity

July 14, 2021 |   Press Release  

Fuel Subsidies: Another Misleading Debate Based on a Piecemeal, Kick-the-can Approach

July 3, 2021 |   Op-ed  

IJC Statement: Call to Lift Legal Immunities

July 2, 2021 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada appointed to the Independent Oversight Board of the joint UN-World Bank-EU Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Framework

June 7, 2021 |   Press Release  

Statement on the New Public Procurement Law

June 7, 2021 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada Welcomes Diana Menhem as New Managing Director

April 23, 2021 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada Welcomes Albert Kostanian as its Executive Chairman

March 9, 2021 |   Press Release  

IJC Statement: Terrorism Charges Against Tripoli Protesters

February 23, 2021 |   Press Release  

IJC Statement: Removal of the Judicial Investigator in the Beirut Port Blast Case

February 20, 2021 |   Press Release  

An Independent Judiciary for the Sake of Lebanon

February 12, 2021 |   Press Release  

Statement on the Assassination of Lokman Slim: The Angel of Death Still Roams Among Us

February 5, 2021 |   Press Release  

Can Unitization Agreements be Next to Settle Lebanon’s Offshore Disputes?

November 30, 2020 |   Focus  

Statement about the Hinderance of Banque du Liban’s Forensic Audit

October 31, 2020 |   Press Release  

What is at Stake in the Current Negotiations Between Lebanon and Israel?

October 30, 2020 |   Focus  

Providing Aid to Lebanon, an Impossible Mission?

October 20, 2020 |   Op-ed  

Prices are Skyrocketing but Where is the State?

October 2, 2020 |   Video  

Impact of Beirut Explosion on Lebanon's Petroleum Ambitions

October 1, 2020 |   Op-ed  

Statement around the Port of Beirut Explosion

August 6, 2020 |   Press Release  

Summary: Lebanon's Electricity Sector

July 29, 2020 |   Position Paper  

The Truth about Lebanon and Sovereign Wealth Funds

July 10, 2020 |   Video  

Statement around Cabinet Decision for Electricity File

July 7, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Statement around the Resignation of Alain Bifani

June 30, 2020 |   Press Release  

Oil and Gas Revenues Won’t Exceed 10% of Public Debt

June 26, 2020 |   Focus  

Statement in Support of the Resignation of Dr. Henri Chaoul from his Advisory Position

June 21, 2020 |   Press Release  

A Currency in Crisis: Decisive Measures are Urgently Needed to Restore Confidence

June 16, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Comments on new Capital Control Draft Law

May 28, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Call for the Implementation of Article 95 of the Constitution

May 26, 2020 |   Video  

Taking Politics out of the Electricity Plan Towards an Ambitious Energy Transition

May 22, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Lebanon’s Electricity Sector Needs an Immediate Action Plan and a New Approach

May 6, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Comments on the Government’s Draft Reform Paper

April 16, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Position on BDL circular 148

April 8, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Lebanon’s Gas Plans on Shaky Ground due to Coronavirus, Oil Price War

March 30, 2020 |   Focus  

Statement around the Process of Auditing on Central Bank Accounts

March 27, 2020 |   Press Release  

Lebanese Financial Crisis: How to Save the Banking Sector

March 25, 2020 |   Position Paper  

The Monetary and Financial Appointments: a Critical Process

March 25, 2020 |   Video  

Draft Law or Capital Control bill?

March 24, 2020 |   Video  

Comments on the Capital Control Draft Law discussed at the Council of Ministers

March 19, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Kulluna Irada Calls for a merit-based Process for the Monetary and Financial Sector Regulatory Appointments

March 17, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Saving the Lebanese Financial Sector: Issues and Recommendations

March 15, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Nation-building is a Challenge that Requires Bold Judicial Appointments

March 13, 2020 |   Press Release  

Q&A - Lebanon's Sovereign Default

March 12, 2020 |   Brief  

Kulluna Irada Welcomes the Lebanese Government’s Decision to Suspend Payments of its Stock of Debt

March 9, 2020 |   Press Release  

Ministerial Statements Point to Lost Decade on Oil and Gas

February 28, 2020 |   Focus  

“What’s the Roadmap to get out of Lebanon’s Financial and Economic Crisis?”

February 20, 2020 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada Calls for a Competitive and Transparent Process to Select the two Advisory Firms on Debt Restructuring

February 13, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Should the Government of Lebanon Pay the March 2020 Debt Maturity?

February 8, 2020 |   Video  

Capital Control and the Stabilization of the Lebanese Economy

February 6, 2020 |   Position Paper  

The Government of Lebanon Should not Honor its Debt Maturity in 2020 at the Expense of its People

February 4, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Open the Parliament to the People

January 30, 2020 |   Focus  

Budget 2020 a pass or fail?

January 28, 2020 |   Video  

Lebanon’s 2020 Budget: An Attempt to Continue Business as Usual in the eye of the Crisis

January 27, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Lebanon’s Economic Crisis: a ten-point Action Plan to Avoid a Lost Decade

January 6, 2020 |   Position Paper  

Note on BDL Circular 536/2019: A Revenue Stream for Banks at the Expense of Depositors

December 20, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Technical Note on the Adverse Financial Environment in Lebanon

December 5, 2019 |   Brief  

Kulluna Irada’s “Why the rush” Campaign wins the Wajih Ajouz Award for Online Activism

December 3, 2019 |   Press Release  

Principles For Managing Lebanon's Natural Resource Revenues

December 1, 2019 |   Report  

Panel Discussion on the Truth Around the Oil and Gas Sector in Lebanon

November 29, 2019 |   Press Release  

Lebanese Financial System under Stress

October 17, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Oil and Gas will not Save Lebanon

October 11, 2019 |   Op-ed  

Kulluna Irada Urges the Implementation of the Access to Information Law

September 3, 2019 |   Press Release  

We call upon the Government to Commit to Enforcing the law and Fighting Corruption

September 3, 2019 |   Press Release  

Questions to be Raised on BDL's Policies

September 2, 2019 |   Brief  

Economic Brief – August 2019

August 9, 2019 |   Brief  

Kulluna Irada and other Civil Society Organizations Stand up for Freedom of Expression

August 2, 2019 |   Press Release  

Combatting Intolerance and Hatred and Guaranteeing Freedom of Expression and Belief are Basic Human Rights

August 2, 2019 |   Press Release  

CALL for a Favorable and Non-Intimidating Atmosphere for Whistleblowers and an Independent Judiciary which Protects Freedom of Expression

July 18, 2019 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada and LOGI tackle the Establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Lebanon

July 5, 2019 |   Press Release  

Addressing MP’s on the 2019 Budget

June 25, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Challenging the Sincerity of the 2019 Budget’s Figures

June 21, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Questioning the 2019 Budget

June 1, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Worrying signs of a slowdown accompanied by capital flights

May 1, 2019 |   Brief  

Kulluna Irada's Comments of Draft Bill 4536/2019

April 16, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Questioning the Government on the Electricity Plan and Draft Bill 4536/2019

April 15, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Questioning the Electricity Plan and Tenders Process

April 10, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Cabinet Approves new Loans in Violation of Constitution and Public Finance Procedure

March 7, 2019 |   Position Paper  

Call to Implement “Strengthening Transparency in the Oil and Gas Sector” and “Access to Information” Laws

February 28, 2019 |   Press Release  

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE & TRANSPARENCY: Building Strong Institutions under the CEDRE Agenda

January 17, 2019 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada and The Legal Agenda Launch a new Initiative

January 10, 2019 |   Video  

Concerns Around the Proposed Draft Law for the Establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Lebanon

September 21, 2018 |   Position Paper  

Parliament & the 2019 Budget: Owning the Reform Agenda Workshop

July 6, 2018 |   Press Release  

Kulluna Irada Speech at CEDRE

April 6, 2018 |   Position Paper  

PARIS, CEDRE & BEYOND: Focusing the Debate on Lebanon’s Structural Reforms

March 23, 2018 |   Press Release  

CEDRE, a Conference Prepared in Opacity with no Clear Strategic Plan

March 23, 2018 |   Position Paper  

Halt to the Passing of Four New Oil & Gas Laws

March 18, 2018 |   Op-ed  

Joint Campaign by Kulluna Irada and LOGI against Rushing the Passing of four Oil & Gas Laws

February 18, 2018 |   Video  

Investigating Lebanon’s pre-qualified Oil and Gas Bidders: Who are They, and how Should We Assess Them?

October 1, 2017 |   Report  

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