Human Rights Watch: Lebanon failing in upholding women rights || Newspapers (Arabic)

Human Rights Watch launched its 2013 report during a conference in which it shared its assessment of the situation of human rights in more than 90 countries.   The report notes a number of human rights violations in Lebanon and the fact that Lebanon has failed to introduce legal reforms especially in terms of the conditions of detention and imprisonment, upholding women’s rights and the rights of refugees and displaced.

The HRW assistant representative for the region, Nadim Houri reported several cases of torture and abuse by armed forces in addition to discrimination against women in religious family laws and the nationality law in addition to the absence of protection from domestic violence.  He also added that a number of legal reforms proposal have yet to be studied notably the nationality law, the domestic violence protection bill, setting up the national council for the disappeared and others and this despite the fact that most of these have already been discussed by parliamentary committee but such discussions were subsequently blocked.

Source: Al-Nahar, Al-Safir, Al-Mustaqbal 8 February 2013