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Women’s quota enhances women’s political participation in Lebanon
1-8-2019
The National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) and the Arab Center for the Development of the Rule of Law and Integrity (ACRLI) held a consultative meeting yesterday entitled, ‘Women’s quota: Towards enhancing women’s political participation in Lebanon’. The event comes in the framework of ‘Encouraging marginalized voices in the Lebanese political process’ program implemented by ACRLI with the support of the US State Department and in cooperation with Plan International. On the occasion, NCLW head, Claudine Aoun Rukuz, underlined the importance of adopting measures that support women’s access to the legislature. For her part, the president of the Arab Women Organization, Fadia Kiwan, stressed the need to enact the quota as a transitional procedure to push forward the participation of women in politics. Likewise, former minister, Ziad Baroud, said the predicament is not in the availability of female capacities, but rather in the prevalent patriarchal mindset still predominant among the majority of Lebanese lawmakers. MP Inaya Ezzedine, who was also present at the event, stated that women’s representation quota should be present in every proposed electoral law, while MP Bahiya Hariri, pledged to submit a draft bill that requires an equal share between men and women in municipal councils. (NNA, August 1, 2019)
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