Back to Contents In the dashboard below, UNHCR reported that “Across Lebanon […] 80% of Palestinians have either lost their incomegenerating possibilities or have had their salaries reduced since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak or even before.”: (Source: UN Inter-Agency Cooperation, Lebanon, “In Focus: Rise of evictions due to increased economic vulnerability”, July 2020, p. 1) A collective of NGOs working in Lebanon made a joint submission to the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review in 2020 in which they stated that: “Before Covid-19, Palestinian refugees were enduring a humanitarian and socio-economic crisis impacting their rights, such as the right to access and practice work. The pandemic made things worse. Unemployment among the Palestinian workforce in Lebanon is currently around 80% (based on a 2019 study on the labor market and unemployment by Dr. Najib Issa). The financial crisis and limits imposed by banks and the government led to a slowdown of remittances by Palestinians to their families and relatives, exacerbating the situation of refugees.” (Source : Najdeh Association, Development Action Without Borders (Naba’a), Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO) et al, “UPR 2020: Palestinian Refugee Rights in Lebanon”, July 2020, p. 13) (Source: WFP “Assessing the Impact of the Economic and COVID-19 Crises in Lebanon”, June 2020, p. 8) 9. Access to labour market, means of basic subsistence 105