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Frantic civil efforts to boost women’s parliamentary representation
22-1-2018
With the approach of parliamentary elections, several civil initiatives are taking place in order to promote women’s representation. After the conference on ‘fostering the role of political parties in promoting women’s representation in 2018 elections’ c.f: http://bit.ly/2F2l6qw, the Lebanese Council of Women (LCW), in partnership with UN Women- Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, organized a conference on the ‘impact of political, economic and social changes on the reality of women in Lebanon’. During the event, LCW president, Iqbal Dughan, revealed that despite that the new elections law overlooked the women’s representation quota, the Council is trying to persuade various political parties to nominate women candidates, and is calling for boycotting the electoral lists that do not include women as top three nominees. Recommendations issued at the end of the conference included: Demanding a unified civil society stance in support of the rights of women to political participation and to run for elections; encouraging women to nominate themselves; supporting women’s electoral and media campaigns. Furthermore, the Committee for Boosting the Role of Women in Decision-Making held a gathering on Sunday in Aley for women candidates, in which took part 52 women nominees from the different Lebanese regions and electoral constituencies. During the event, civil activist Hayat Arslan expressed the readiness of Lebanese women running for the 2018 elections to boldly rise to the challenge. “We consider gender discrimination as one key mechanism for marginalization, and we believe that the potentials of Lebanese men and women complement each other in order to rebuild the nation on a more balanced foundation,” Arslan maintained. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, January 20, 22, 2018)
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