This UN Women Lebanon Gender Snapshot presents a secondary analysis of the 2025 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees (VASyR), examining patterns of vulnerability through a gender and disability lens.

This brief shows how women are represented in Lebanon’s judiciary in 2025. It highlights that women are now the majority of judges in civil courts, showing strong progress.

Between 7 March and 10 April 2026, UN Women reached over 30,800 crisis-affected individuals across Lebanon through a comprehensive, gender-responsive humanitarian response, including 6,226 direct beneficiaries, 99 per cent of whom are women, and more than 24,650 individuals reached indirectly.

This document is a UN Women Lebanon Rapid Gender Analysis examining the gendered impacts of displacement outside collective shelters following the escalation of hostilities on March 2, 2026.

This Gender Brief presents findings from a rapid needs assessment on the gendered impacts of conflict, displacement, and multi-layered crises on Syrian refugee and Lebanese women and girls in Baalbek-Hermel.

UN Women has released its first Flash Update on the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon following the events of 2 March 2026. The update provides an overview of the rapidly evolving humanitarian situation and highlights the gender-specific risks faced by women and girls amid widespread displacement, overcrowded shelters, and strained public services.

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress and remaining challenges in implementing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Lebanon. Drawing on institutional data, desk research, and consultations with 101 women leaders across the country, the report examines women’s participation in political, security, and justice institutions, as well as their role in conflict prevention, protection, and recovery efforts.

This report presents the key results, achievements and lessons learned from the CERF-funded humanitarian intervention implemented by UN Women Lebanon between January and July 2025 in response to the escalating hostilities and worsening socioeconomic crisis in the country.

This Gender Snapshot presents an analysis of the priority needs and living conditions of live-out migrant households in Lebanon, based on MSNA 2025 data. It examines how gender, disability, age, and household composition shape economic hardship, access to services, and assistance gaps.

The 2025 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Knowledge Production Round-Up in Lebanon brings together a set of research, learning materials, tools, and human stories developed by UN Women and its partners throughout the year.

This UN Women–REACH Lebanon Gender Snapshot, based on the 2025 MSNA, highlights how Lebanon’s crises affect households through a gender, age, disability, and geographic lens. It identifies the most vulnerable groups, especially female-headed households and those including persons with disabilities, and translates findings into sector insights and priority actions to inform the Lebanon Response Plan 2026.

This practical tip sheet, developed by UN Women and WFP (Apr–Nov 2025), equips WFP frontliners and partners in Lebanon to mainstream gender-responsive and conflict-sensitive approaches throughout the food-distribution cycle.

This case study highlights a joint UN Women and World Food Programme (WFP) pilot initiative in Lebanon that operationalized women-led local mediation to ensure gender-responsive and conflict-sensitive food assistance. The initiative strengthened collaboration between humanitarian and peacebuilding actors, demonstrated the impact of women’s leadership in promoting social stability, and offers a replicable model for integrating gender and mediation into humanitarian action.

This study explores women’s roles in Lebanese political parties, assessing their representation, participation, and leadership. It highlights challenges and opportunities, reviews party policies and initiatives, and proposes strategies to advance women’s political engagement and gender equality in Lebanon. The findings aim to inform stakeholders and support more inclusive decision-making processes.

This newsletter captures the latest updates on the UN Women - Lebanon Country Office and its partners' interventions under the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) programme in Lebanon. The newsletter includes the key 2024 highlights and achievements of UN Women's partners towards the protection of women and girls with enhanced safety, security, and respect for their human rights, as well as towards improved socio-economic recovery and participation of women and young women in peacebuilding contexts. Additionally, the newsletter features highlights related to the strengthening, through institutional funding, of civil society organizations working on the implementation of commitments related to Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPSHA) in Lebanon.

The media in Lebanon plays a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions of women’s political participation. This report examines how traditional media and social media platforms in Lebanon influence women’s engagement in politics, focusing on the challenges posed by biased representation, online violence, and limited media visibility.

In Lebanon, a country characterized by a complex sectarian political system, ensuring voter secrecy remains a challenge due to structural and cultural practices that undermine these democratic principles. This paper explores the state of voter secrecy in Lebanon, its challenges, and its impact on women’s political participation, drawing on recent studies, reports, and election observations.

The purpose of this working paper is to analyse the impact of electoral campaign financing regulations on women’s political participation in Lebanon.

A research analysis on how Lebanese history textbooks portray women and gender issues, including the participation of women in writing these narratives. This paper was commissioned by UN Women Lebanon and developed by Kafa and the Lebanese Association for History as part of the “Implementing the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Lebanon through building pathways for dialogue and inclusive governance” project.

This paper was commissioned by UN Women Lebanon and developed by Kafa as part of the “Implementing the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Lebanon through building pathways for dialogue and inclusive governance” project, funded by Norway.