Women actions in commemoration of the International Day for Human Rights || Newspapers (Arabic)

On the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights, The National Gathering to Abolish Discrimination Against Women organized yesterday in collaboration with “Because they are my children, my nationality is their right” national campaign, a sit in at the Jebran Khalil Jebran garden across from the UN-ESCWA headquarters. The coordinator of the National Gathering, Azza Al Horr-Mroueh noted that not allowing Lebanese women from passing citizenship to their children is a violation of their rights. She asked parliamentarians and political parties to indicate whether Lebanon is a state for citizens or for confessional communities.
Mroueh added that the Lebanese nationality law discriminates against women and asked policy makers to initiate a reform of discriminatory laws in Lebanon especially the nationality law which affects 20000 Lebanese women married to non-nationals.
The national coalition for the enactment of a law to protect women from domestic violence concluded its 16 days campaign against violence against women.  The Coalition declared in a press release that it was able to bring back the work “women” into the title of the law proposal and is heading toward reconsidering marital law as a punishable offense.  The national coalition to legalize women’s protection from domestic violence announced as well, that it now has the approval and signature of 44 parliamentarians on petition about those amendments.
The Lebanese Women’s Affairs, held a meeting concluded with a press release which noted that Arab revolutions were caused by decades of violations of civil, economic, social, political and environmental rights.   According to the association, the recording of these human rights violation was key in dethroning former rulers.

Source: Al-Safir, Al-Akhbar, Al-Nahar, Al-Mustaqbal