Refugees Without Protection - Annual Violations Report 2020

Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) is a non-profit and non-governmental human rights organization based in Beirut and Paris, founded in 2017 In Lebanon, specialized in observing the human rights refugee situation and publishing periodic publications on mass violations with the aim of raising awareness and international advocacy to ensure the right to human dignity in the countries of asylum until their voluntary, dignified, and safe return to their country of origin.

Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) is publishing a report titled "Refugees Without Protection," This annual report sheds light on the various human rights violations against Syrian refugees observed and/or documented by Access Center for Human Rights during the year 2020 as ACHR observed and/or documented 158 human rights violations against Syrian refugees in Lebanon including cases of arbitrary detention and arrest, torture and ill-treatment, arbitrary deportation, sexual violence, identity documents confiscation, forced eviction and, forced disappearance, in contradiction to national laws and international treaties that Lebanon has ratified. In this regard, ACHR came forth with a set of recommendations to the relevant actors in the refugee file in Lebanon - the Lebanese government, the UN Refugee Agency, the international community and donors, and civil society networks and coalitions - to ensure the protection of refugees in the country.

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