‘Your Right is a Guarantee for Your Family’ campaign launches a women-focused media competition

Your Right is a Guarantee for Your Family’ campaign aims to relentlessly continue with its activities until all discriminatory legislations against women, particularly the Social Security Law, are rectified. As such the campaign organised yesterday a closing ceremony for those activities launched in the framework the initiative entitled, ‘Everyone is a Winner: Social and Economic Empowerment of Women in Lebanon’ and which is part of the campaign (for the full news: http://bit.ly/1l4O6n8). Concurrently, Search for Common Grounds association, in coordination with ALEF-Act for Human Rights organization continue to receive applications for their jointly planned media competition which seeks to highlight the unequal social and economic status of women in Lebanon through the production of media material. The two main terms for the said contest, is that the proposed material should be submitted in Arabic, English or French; and the material and the registration form be sent no later than February 28. Winners of each category, who will be selected by a jury of media representatives and civil society activists, will be informed by email, and will be granted the opportunity to publish their material in An Nahar newspaper. During the closing ceremony, the project coordinator, Yasmine Masri insisted that: the project will not stop until all relevant discriminatory laws are reformed; adding that meetings with officials and deputies will resume once the work of the Parliament is reactivated. (An Nahar, February 23, 2016)