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Internally Displaced Persons – 1994

There are no legal restrictions on the right of citizens to return to Lebanon. Some progress was made in terms of encouraging displaced individuals to return to their home. According to the State Department report, those displaced persons had begun to reclaim their homes abandoned during the war. However, a vast majority of them had yet to reclaim their property. “The resettlement process is slowed by tight budgetary constraints, destroyed infrastructure, the lack of schools and economic opportunities, and the fear that physical security is still lacking in some parts of the country.”¹

1. “Lebanon Human Rights Practices, 1994,” U.S. State Department Dispatch, February 1995.