Recession impedes legal feminist movement in Lebanon

European Union organized in collaboration with a number of civil and women's associations in Lebanon, a workshop on «European Neighborhood Policy Plan between the EU and Lebanon on the support of women's rights», in which the following issues were highlighted:
- The women's movement: its efficiency, reality, and causes of its sectarian and vertical division
- Reform the legal recession on women's rights since independence
- Lebanon's double standards in dealing with agreements and treaties and decisions of international and regional de facto equality between men and women
- Relationship with the EU regulations and policies adopted in MENA countries