The Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights Lebanon [FHHRL], a registered centre for studies and promotion of human rights in Lebanon is devoted to propagate human rights and the related values, foremost of which is democracy, as one of its four aims:



To promote a concious awareness of the rights of the human being in Lebanon, the Middle and the Near East. To root this awareness and propagate these values by way of longterm and far-reaching education processes the ultimate goal of which shall be to integrate these rights within the fabric of each citizen and group.



To identify cases and situations where human rights, as defined and detailed in the international instruments, are violated or denied. Throrough investigations and publishing of findings shall follow in a bid to promote awareness and alert the public opinion on all levels, local, regional and international.



To confront the sources and the agents of violation of human rights and apply pressure on the perpetrators to halt the violations and redress injustice.



To examine the laws and the regulations, their latitude and manner of enforcement. To endorse the laws [should they be] or lobby to amend them [in case they are not] to conform to normative standards of human rights.