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Regie of tobacco supports 16 development projects

31-1-2019

Under the patronage of finance minister, Ali Hassan Khalil, the Regie Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs held a ceremony yesterday to distribute financial aid allocated for the implementation of development projects in 16 towns and villages in the South, North and Beqaa areas. The contributions covered the villages of Tal Abbas west of Saadine, Samunia in Akkar, Khirbet Silm, Kafra, Hadatha and Rmeish in Bint Jbeil, Al Ain, Kasr Nabba and Ali Nahri in Beqaa, Taybeh, Shebaa and Kantara in Marjey3oon, Tora and Salaa in Tyre and Nabatiyeh el Fowka in Nabatiyeh area. Projects include the construction of public halls and the building of retaining or support walls for agricultural purposes, rehabilitation or construction of ponds and water canals and reservoirs, equipping of artesian wells, construction of agricultural roads and purchase of trucks for collecting garbage. On the occasion, Khalil maintained that the state-run Regie is one of the main institutions that give the country hope in improving the performance and work of public departments. For his part, the general director of the Regie, Nassif Seqlawi, said that, besides its economic role, the company boasts a key development and environmental mission, noting that in recent years, it has supported 178 municipalities in the North, South and Bekaa regions. (Al Diyar, January 31, 2019)

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Women of Arabsalim sort waste at the source

30-1-2019

In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper shed light on an individual waste sorting initiative launched by Nida’ Al Ard Association in the southern town of Arabsalim. In the details, An Nahar wrote that school teacher, Zeinab Mukaled, innovated a solution for the garbage crisis in her village since 1995 when South Lebanon was still under Israeli occupation. Mukaled set a role model for other women when she motivated them to start sorting trash at the source. She told An Nahar reporter that she pulled together some 13 volunteers suggesting that each keeps the solid waste at her house and discard of the organic garbage in the street containers. “We collected the trash in the backyard of our houses. But we had to find recycling plants.” Eventually, we negotiated with a plastic factory in Tyre and a glass factory in Chweifat and also with a dealer who agreed to buy the waste metal we collected. As for cardboard, carton and paper, village women used them as fuel for baking the saj bread or as firewood in the winter season. “In a self-starting move, the Arabsalim residents today sort the waste at the source, and in a collaborative spirit of the women of Arabsalim, we are now accommodating and treating the waste of neighboring villages,” Mukaled boasted. (An Nahar, January 30, 2019)

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Saniya Haboob, first MD in Lebanon, Anbara Khalidi, founder of first women association

30-1-2019

In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper spotlighted two celebrated women from Lebanon, Anbara Salam Khalidi who founded the first women’s rights association and Dr. Saniya Haboob, the first woman MD in the country. Anbara, the eldest daughter of Salim Salam, decided at 15 to follow her philosophy about the freedom of her female peers. In March, 1914, she, and a group of girls, were successful to set up the first feminist association in Lebanon under the name, ‘The Awakening of the Young Arab Woman’. The primary objective of the association was to encourage girls to follow up their higher education through provision of the necessary financial and moral support. Anbara toured many Arab countries campaigning for women's liberation and wrote a series of articles urging women to fight for their rights under the Ottoman Empire. Haboob, on the other hand, was the first Lebanese woman to leave her country to study medicine. She entered the American Junior College, (formerly BUC and today known as LAU) In 1925, but her distinction helped her to join the AUB’s Medical School. After receiving her MD degree from Western University, Canada, Haboob moved to the University of Philadelphia to specialize in gynecology. In 1932, she returned to Lebanon and opened a clinic in Bab Edriss, old downtown Beirut providing free medical services to women. (An Nahar, January 30, 2019)

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Hezbollah: Protecting women from violence is a religious obligation

30-1-2019

The member of Al Wafaa lil Mukawama parliamentary bloc (Hezbollah affliated), MP Nawaf Mussawi, said yesterday that protecting a woman, a wife or mother, is a human and moral duty supported by the Sharia. Mussawi, who was speaking during a meeting with a delegation from Kafa Enough Violence and Exploitation organization, sustained compliance with the above, irrespective of the covert plans by certain sides to sabotage our community’s cultural identity. Mussawi pointed out that during the discussion in the Parliamentarian sub-committee of the domestic violence bill, we stressed our commitment to the moral virtues prescribed in Islamic religious texts, including the founding of marriage and family on the qualities of mercy, love and living together that are essentially contrary to oppression, harm and violence. “Our attitudes and stands are in agreement with regulations issued by spiritual authorities,” Mussawi concluded. (Al Diyar, January 30, 2019)

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Maritime export bridge suspended

30-1-2019

The Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (IDAL) has reportedly suspended the sea export bridge program, according to Al Diyar today. This comes after the expiration of the period previously set by the council of minister this end, and despite the availability of funds to support it. The newspaper mentioned one of the reasons for the non-renewal as the absence of a government to take on executive decisions, in addition to the resumption of Nassib Crossing at the Syrian-Jordanian borders. Recalling, that nearly 85% of the overall Lebanese exports used to pass through said crossing. (Al Diyar, January 30, 2019)

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Saradar Bank women’s race in Beirut on March 31st

29-1-2019

The minister of public works in the caretaker government, Yousef Finianos, discussed yesterday with the president of the Beirut Marathon Association, May Khalil, the hosting by Port of Beirut of the upcoming Saradar Bank Women’s Race to be held on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Following the meeting, Khalil said she informed the minister about the intention of holding the annual event at the Port, revealing that she has earlier visited the port’s CEO, Hassan Kreitim, who welcomed the idea. Khalil also mentioned that a press conference will be held on February 12 at the facility to officially announce the race, hoping the ministry’s participation will be a gesture in support of the Lebanese female athletes. Finianos for his part commended the role of the Beirut Marathon Association in polishing the country’s cultural image, stressing the need to highlight the role of the Port of Beirut through the Saradar race. (Al Mustaqbal, January 29, 2019)

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VAW news: Military kills his mother in law, harassment of girls in Kura, kidnapping with intention of forced marriage

29-1-2019

Al Mustaqbal reported today that the first lieutenant in the Army, Kh. A, has shot his mother in law and sister in law killing the first and injuring the second in chest. The newspaper said that in mid-December 2017, the assailant arrived at a village in Akkar to take his infant and his wife, F. A who had fled and returned to her parents’ house with her daughter after learning about her husband’s second marriage. But when the wife’s parents refused to let him in, the perpetrator aimed his gun at the house firing several shots killing his mother in law and injuring his sister in law. Subsequently, the military court charged the culprit with the deliberate killing of his mother in law and attempting to kill his wife’s sister by shooting them from an unlicensed handgun, while noting that the husband repeatedly beat his wife. On the other hand, the ISF Information Department arrested yesterday A. A, Syrian, in Haikaliyeh neighborhood of Koura in the North on charges of sexually harassing girls. He was referred to Dahr el Ayn police station to take legal action against him. On the same day, Ibrahim Khaled Hadou, Syrian, reported to Ghabala ISF police unit his fellow citizen Hassan for luring his minor daughter Rahaf (13 years) and kidnapping her with the intention of marriage. (Al Mustaqbal, January 29, 2019)

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AUB honors Mirna Bustani

29-1-2019

Mirna Bustani received yesterday the American University of Beirut, AUB’s highest award, the University Medal, in recognition for her significant contributions to AUB. Bustani was the first Lebanese woman to join the ranks of the Lebanese Legislature succeeding her father, MP Emile Bustani, after his death in 1963 and also inherited his businesses, to later found Al Bustan Hotel in Beit Meri. She received a degree from the Faculty of Arts, University of Lyon, and organized concerts for the British Lebanese Association. In 1994, she started Al Bustan Festival which placed Lebanon on the world stage as a center for performing arts. Among her awards, is the Order of the Cedar of the Officer Rank; the Merit of Culture from the ministry of arts of the Polish Republic; the Golden Insignia of the Republic of Austria; the Friendship Medal from Russia, and the Commander Isabelle la Catholique Order from the King of Spain. Bustani was also honored in 2017 with a commemorative stamp by Liban Post and is one of the founders of the British Lebanese Association (1980) and the Center for Lebanese Studies, Oxford (1990). (Al Mustaqbal, January 29,2019)

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Towards a national strategy for social protection

28-1-2019

In collaboration with UNICEF, the ministry of social affairs (MoSA) on January 25, organized a workshop on the preparation of a national strategy for social protection in the presence of MoSA minister Pierre Abu Assi, UNICEF representative and the ministry’s director general. Around 50 representatives of international organizations, public administration and civil society, and a group of experts attended as well. Discussion focused on the mechanisms necessary to prepare a comprehensive strategy for social protection in the country, and the need for coordination between the various public departments, international institutions and civil society in order to unify the social vision and goals of social protection. In conclusion, participants agreed to work to set up the procedures for the strategy in cooperation with partners. (Al Mustaqbal, January 26, 2019)

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Number of women in banking sector increasing

28-1-2019

The chief operation officer at Al Mawarid Bank, head of women empowerment group at the Arab financial institutions and banks affiliated with the World Union of Arab Bankers (WUAB), Nahla Bou Diab, said the number of female workforce in the sector is steadily increasing. The rate of women in the banking industry stood at 47.8%, she said, noting that females have surpassed males in the level of educational attainment and in terms of job rank or title, where they now occupy senior positions as managers of bank branches in the different Lebanese regions. In her interview with Al Diyar newspaper, Bou Diab maintained that women workers are an added value in the banking sector, especially that they stood out in the technology and management sections. Bou Diab called for diversity in the administrative staff in preparation for diversity in the board rooms, stressing that management requires both men and women who boast good management skills and experience. Recalling, that the WUAB has approved the system of diversity developed recently by Bou Diab. The system is a handbook for the daily work within financial institutions. It guides them to achieve coherence and integration between the various skills and fill gaps with the purpose to activate their capacity to adapt with the constantly changing global environment, and enable them to create equal opportunities between men and women. (Al Diyar, January 27, 2019)

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