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World IP Day celebrates women innovations, accomplishments

27-4-2018

The World Intellectual Property Day which falls on April 26 of every year, celebrated the creative and innovative achievements by women, noting that IP rights cover patents, trademarks, industrial designs and copyrights. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said that the World IP Day 2018 “revels the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of women who stimulate change in our world and shape our common future.” Every day, WIPO statement said, women come up with inventions that change the rules of the game and improve and transform the quality of life, as well as, increase human knowledge in various sciences, from space physics to nanotechnology, and from medicine to artificial intelligence and robotics. It is time, WIPO stated, to rethink ways that multiply the number of women and girl inventors around the globe, stressing the role of IP system in supporting them to market their ideas. (Al Mustaqbal, April 27, 2018)

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ESCWA & gender mainstreaming

26-4-2018

As part of the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2018, the UN Women, ESCWA, UNICEF and UNDP organized a panel discussion yesterday on the importance of mainstreaming the perspective of gender equality and women empowerment in national strategies for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On the occasion, the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian, underlined the significance of the prime minister’s circular which provides for taking into consideration the gender impact in any legislation, decision or decree published by the council of ministers. For her part, the director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at LAU (IWSAW), Lina Abi Rafeh, presented some of the main recommendations based on the IWSAW research, “to make cities and human settlements inclusive and safe for everyone,” stressing that “women should feel safe in order to communicate their needs and hopes.” In turn, UN Women submitted its report, ‘Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, which includes case studies from several Arab countries. It also is a key reference for member states and other stakeholders in the region when tackling the gender dimensions for sustainable development, including natural resource management. (Al Mustaqbal, April 26, 2018)

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ESCWA & gender mainstreaming

26-4-2018

As part of the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2018, the UN Women, ESCWA, UNICEF and UNDP organized a panel discussion yesterday on the importance of mainstreaming the perspective of gender equality and women empowerment in national strategies for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On the occasion, the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian, underlined the significance of the prime minister’s circular which provides for taking into consideration the gender impact in any legislation, decision or decree published by the council of ministers. For her part, the director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at LAU (IWSAW), Lina Abi Rafeh, presented some of the main recommendations based on the IWSAW research, “to make cities and human settlements inclusive and safe for everyone,” stressing that “women should feel safe in order to communicate their needs and hopes.” In turn, UN Women submitted its report, ‘Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, which includes case studies from several Arab countries. It also is a key reference for member states and other stakeholders in the region when tackling the gender dimensions for sustainable development, including natural resource management. (Al Mustaqbal, April 26, 2018)

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Three women are sexually abused weekly and death penalty for wife killer

26-4-2018

The First Investigative Judge in Beirut, Ghassan Oweidat, issued an indictment yesterday in the murder last January 22, of Nada Bahlawan by her ex-husband in the Beirut neighborhood of Ras el Nabeh (https://bit.ly/2rF12sz). Oweidat’s ruling called for the death penalty for the culprit based on Article 549 of the Penal Code of premeditated murder and on Article 73 of the Weapons Act of the transfer of an unauthorized hunting gun. On the other hand, the Directorate General of the Internal Security Forces statistics has shown that nearly 13 women report sexual abuse every month in Lebanon (3 incidents per week), in addition to reportedly 229 sexual assault incidents which took place between January 2016 and August 2017. According to human rights experts on sexual assaults and trafficking in women, figures have revealed that the rate of reports by women of similar incidents has risen in the past few years. This, they argued, is mainly due to an increase in community awareness to such cases and how to deal with them, as well as, to the culture of silence and blaming or pressuring women victims to stay silent, on the one hand, or to the improved legal frameworks that protect women against trafficking and violence. (Al Akhbar, Al Mustaqbal, April 26, 2018)

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First statue of a woman unveiled in UK parliament square

26-4-2018

The first statue of a woman in the iconic UK Parliament Square was unveiled on Tuesday for the feminist campaigner, Millicent Fawcett. The latter, to recall, was a staunch advocate of equality in the rights between men and women, and will be honored in a ceremony to mark the centenary since women were granted the right to vote on the same terms as men. Fawcett has founded the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and in 1866, when she was still 19, she collected the signatures for the first petition demanding the right of women to vote to be submitted to the Legislative. The statue will be placed among the other 11 statues mostly for British statesmen, notably, PM Winston Churchill, as well as, for India’s independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, and the South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. During the unveiling event, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, said, “I would not be here as a premier today, and there would not be any women in parliament without the dedication of Fawcett. For generations to come, this statue will not serve only as a reminder of Fawcett’s extraordinary life and legacy, but as an inspiration to follow in her footsteps,” May stated. (An Nahar, April 25, 2018)

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Rania Bassil, Lina Mkhaiber nominees for inter-faith dialogue, women’s rights

25-4-2018

In its continuous support of women’s nomination for parliamentary elections, L’Orient Le Jour spotlighted the respective career paths of candidates, Rania Bassil (Jbeil) and Lina Mkhaiber (Matn). Bassil, a pediatric cardiologist recruited by 7 Party Byblos electoral list, has received her MD from USJ and continued her specialty in the US and France before returning to Lebanon in 2010. Besides her career in medicine, Bassil volunteers in health awareness and is currently working on a draft law to rehabilitate government institutions, especially hospitals. Her interest in social issues, she told L’Orient Le Jour, started with the outbreak of the garbage crisis in 2015, as it impacts the health condition of the Lebanese. Disclosing the motive behind her nomination, Bassil said she wanted to fight the discriminatory laws against women. Lina Mkhaiber, on the other hand, comes from a political family in the Matn area and is enlisted on the Lebanese Forces (LF) electoral list. Mkhaiber moved to France during the Civil War after which she travelled to Tennessee, US, where she earned her public health degree and worked in the state of Maryland. In 1991, she returned to Lebanon at the request of her deceased uncle, former MP and physician, Albert Mkhaiber. She found a job at the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) where she learned dialogue and how to accept other people’s differences. She was basically attracted to inter-faith dialogue, which she pledged to place in the forefront of her duties in the event of winning the elections. Later on, Mkhaiber joined the USJ faculty and is currently working at El Roum Hospital, Beirut, according to L’Orient Le Jour. (L’Orient Le Jour, April 25, 2018)

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LCRVAW initiative to tighten legislation against rapists

25-4-2018

The Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LCRVAW) in Tripoli organized a two-day training session (April 19-20) under the title, ‘So that the repeal of Article 522 does not remain ceremonial, together for the amendment of Articles 505 and 519 and the abolishing of Article 518’. This comes as part of ‘protecting women and girls through the elimination of discriminatory articles related to rape in Lebanon’ in collaboration with the international organization Equality Now. The project director, Ghinwa Chandar Hadid, said the workshop completes the first phase of the project to be completed in its later stages with the launch of the advocacy and support campaign to pressure the parliament to ratify the recommendations resulting from the workshop. To wrap up, the workshop tackled the legal provisions noted in the legal, and psycho-social aspects. To this end, lawyer Maysaa Shandar discussed the content of Article 522 that was repealed in August 2017, but whose effects are still observed in Articles 505 and 518. She also pointed out to the rise in the rate of sexual assault and rape incidents in the country, in addition to the forms of punishment applied by world states in this direction. In her turn, psychologist Dr. Mireille Elias talked about the psychological area, focusing on the negative impact of rape, and expounded the phenomenon of the marriage of minors and its repercussions. (Al Diyar, April 25, 2018)

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Kingdom women spend lavishly on cosmetics

25-4-2018

Following a series of sweeping social reforms related to women in Saudi Arabia, a report by the Washington Post revealed that Saudi women spend large amounts of money on cosmetics and personal care products as the increasing makeup sales show. And, even though most women cover their face and hair in public, there is an upsurge in sales because of the growing number of Saudi women who are joining the labor force and are thus spending from their own salaries. According to the marketing research group Euromonitor International, the rising employment rates, especially among women, have afforded the boosting of sales of beauty products and encouraged female consumers to spend more. In figures, retails sales on makeup in S.A have risen from USD 410 million in 2012 to USD 576 million last year, the report said. For more info, kindly refer to the link below: : https://goo.gl/p9V4Y7. (Al Diyar, April 23, 2018)

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Women in 2018 elections: candidacy is stronger in urban areas, weaker in regions

24-4-2018

In its Saturday’s issue, Al Akhbar newspaper published an article by Dr. Shabib Diab on women running for the upcoming parliamentary elections, mentioning a total of 85 out of 111 women originally enlisted (from all 976 men and women candidates) by the end of the deadline for registering the electoral lists on March 26. The majority of those women, Diab noticed, are holders of university degrees, some coming from the media and law fields or are social, community and, especially, environment activists. On the national arena, the article indicated that 46% of female nominees are Muslims compared to 54% Christians, while noting that legislative seats are equally divided between the two religious communities. The number of female candidates, according to the article, is the highest in Beirut governorate (33 candidates), followed by Mount Lebanon (30), the North (15), Beqaa (10), Akkar (9), Baalbaq-Hermel and the South (5 candidates each) and finally, Nabatiyeh (4 female nominees). The strength of the female candidacy, according to Diab, is concentrated in the urban center and gradually weakens towards the regions. In order to identify the differences between the electoral constituencies and the level of women’s political participation. Dr. Diab based his study on an index that compares the number of female candidates in the constituencies to the number of female voters. In the outcome, Beirut 2nd Constituency came first, (with one woman nominee for every 8.1,000 women electors), followed by the Metn district (one female nominee for 8.3 thousand female voters). On the other hand, the Nabatiyeh district recorded one female candidate for every 57.5 female electors, followed by Tyre-Zahrani (one female candidate for every 50.3 thousand female electors). Akkar was placed in the middle, representing the national average of the number of female candidates against the number of female voters. (The article can be found on the following link: https://bit.ly/2HJHn1). (Al Akhbar, April 21, 2018)

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Saradar bank women’s race: Draw Your Path

24-4-2018

The Beirut Marathon Association organized on Sunday the Saradar Bank Women’s Race at Beirut Seaside Arena under the message, “Draw Your Path” in the presence of NCLW president, Claudine Aoun Rukuz, and a crowd of dignitaries. The goal, according to race organizers, is to empower women through the simple sport of running and to turn the event into a platform to advocate their issues. Around 4350 men and women participated in the marathon, which is considered the highest rate since the launch of the event back in 2013. (Al Mustaqbal, An Nahar, Al Diyar, April 23, 2018)
 

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