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Nationality campaign: No hope for Lebanon under discriminatory laws against women
3-9-2020
My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family Campaign released a statement yesterday on the occasion of the centenary of Greater Lebanon maintaining that it will not give a congratulations speech on the occasion until the declaration is realized in word and deed through nondiscriminatory laws that treat Lebanese citizens equally. The Campaign said that since the declaration on September first by the High Commissioner of the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, General Henri Gouraud, of the Greater Lebanon and the onset of Lebanon’s Constitutions on May 23, 1962, which defined the structure of the state, up to the independence date on November 22, 1943, a defective bill is still in effect. To note, the Nationality Law regulating Lebanese citizenship was enacted on January 19, 1925, by the Ordinance of the French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, General Sarrail. The Campaign demanded an abolition of the law which it described as unequal and unfair for Lebanese women and their families. How can a law dating back to pre-independence take precedence ove the constitution of a republic? The statement wondered how can a nation that supposedly claimed its independence remain subjected to a nationality law set by the commander of the French Mandate Army. No resurrection of Lebanon is possible unless these bigoted laws are modified or amended, the Campaign stated. It said that while official celebrations were underway yesterday to mark the centenary, Lebanese mothers married to non-Lebanese were touring schools and the education ministry to try to scare up the most basic right for their children, which is the right to education, impeded by the official reluctance to ratify a law that gives the priority for the admission of students from a Lebanese mother and a non-Lebanese father. In fact, this comes at a time women are stressed more than anyone with relation to the coronavirus-imposed quarantine and to the deprivation of all the benefits, according to My Nationality Campaign statement. The Lebanese woman is still paying a high price as a result of the discriminatory nationality bill which not only deprives her of conferring citizenship to her family members, but also affects all life matters, like for example education, medical care, employment, etc. In conclusion, the Campaign called for an end to the injustice rooted in the laws and for the approval of a fair and equitable nationality law. It advised for harmonizing relevant local laws with international conventions and with the spirit and text of the Lebanese Constitution, revealing that during the French President’s upcoming visit to Lebanon it will ask him to clear out the discriminating nationality law put by his ancestors. (The full article is found on the following link: https://www.facebook.com/jinsiyati)
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