ABSTRACT
CFKD President Wadad Halwani personally met with MPs and lobbied for their support for the draft law. She sent letters to every MP before the decisive parliamentary session on November 12, parting from technical language and using an emotional tone calling on the fathers, brothers, and sons in them to put aside their sectarian belonging or their political interests and help the families. As the communitas did in the past years, she linked the resolution of the issue to dealing with Lebanon’s past, and to the ultimate revival of the nation. With regard to the international community, the ICRC has shown consistency in its technical support of the issue through its program for the missing in Lebanon. Indeed, with an estimated one-and-a-half million refugees on Lebanese soil since 2013, the international community’s agenda has shifted toward humanitarian projects geared toward the refugees and vulnerable host communities.
