Al Azm women and transformative events

The Women’s Sector- Al Azm Movement officer, Jinan Mbayed, stressed the importance of cooperation between various feminist organizations to endorse human rights and the status of Arab women in particular. Mbayed was speaking during her participation in the Women Leaders’ Summit in Istanbul organized by Raedat Network on November 28. The Arab world as a whole, specially Lebanon, is currently experiencing an uprising by the people demanding social justice and a decent living, Mbayed said. Arab and Lebanese women are called on to actively engage in shaping, rather than being a sideline observer, of developments and events, she added. This entails participation in drawing strategies and future visions, and also figuring out and formulating substitutes to the status quo which arise from both the needs and capacities of society. (NNA, December 3, 2019)