It is an outrage that you cannot put in words. As it is continuing within the raging economic crisis, the collapse of education and health has become Lebanon’s worst strategic problem. Yet the establishment continues to neglect the basic human rights of its citizens by failing to prioritize healthcare and education. The problems of patients who struggle for basic medicines and the problems of children who are deprived of schooling are neither concealed nor are their implications difficult to analyze. The pages of this magazine have published tirelessly about the devastating effects of inadequate policies on the long-term socio-economic health of the nation. It is time to call out these irresponsible and corrupt actions for what they are: human rights violations. The economic crisis facing Lebanon is not a new phenomenon, but the government’s inability to commit to reforms that address the root causes of this crisis is nothing short
