LAW provides legal protection, civil documentation and legal counselling to women and girls of all nationalities, to migrant domestic workers, to LGBTQI+ people and to those facing statelessness. Early work achieved a 100% success rate in obtaining protection orders for women who requested assistance. In March 2025, LAW convened eight NGOs and other stakeholders to examine the legal barriers and stigma facing marginalised groups, particularly LGBTQI+ people, and the reforms needed to remove them.

In October 2020 LAW filed the first criminal case in Lebanon and the wider region arguing that conditions under the Kafala system amount to slavery and slave trading. In May 2025 Meseret Hailu, an Ethiopian migrant worker held for over eight years, travelled from rural Ethiopia to testify before an investigating judge in Beirut, the first time a survivor has given evidence in such a case in Lebanon. LAW also continues to press for a transparent and independent investigation into the Beirut port explosion on behalf of survivors and bereaved families, and brought their demands directly to the EU Special Representative for Human Rights in November 2025.

Through its work on the legacy of Lebanon’s fifteen year civil war, LAW supports the families of the forcibly disappeared and survivors of gendered crimes committed during the conflict. Its report with UN Women drew on 36 victims and eyewitnesses, a survey of 150 individuals and interviews with 23 experts to document sexual violence and other gendered crimes that had gone unrecorded. The accompanying documentary, Mu’ajjal, won four international awards and was a finalist for three others.