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VAW: woman blackmailed in Baalbaq

28-3-2019

The ISF Directorate General - Public Relations said in a statement on March 3, that the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau at the Judicial Police Unit received a complaint filed by a woman to Baalbaq Public Prosecutor against anonymous involving sexual and financial abuse and threat to post her photos on social media. The Directorate statement added, that upon investigation and scrutiny, the suspect, M.A (Lebanese, born in 1998) was arrested in the Beqaa town of Majdal Anjar. Under interrogation, the defendant admitted to the charge of blackmailing the woman with a sum of USD 3,000, in complicity with his cousin N.H (Syrian, born in 2002). The latter was also arrested in the town of Labweh and confessed to having threatened the plaintiff with publishing photos she received from Syrian national, M.A, who is currently in Syria. (Al Mustaqbal, March 28, 2019)

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Lebanese brands popular at Franchise Expo Paris

27-3-2019

The Lebanese Franchise Association (LFA) was present at the Franchise Expo Paris 2019 (March 17-20) in a pavilion boasting distinctive Lebanese brands. Participants and show goers reportedly voiced admiration for the ingenuity of Lebanese producers in creating uniqueness and enhancing marketing techniques, as well as in provision of the most state-of-the-art services to meet a wider range of consumers. On the occasion, LFA head, Yehya Kas’a, stressed the success of the first contribution by Lebanon at the Franchise Expo which is dubbed a world’s leading and most diversified franchise exposition. This, Kas’a maintained, will encourage a greater number of brand owners to seize their place at similar international events which allow them to learn about novel products on the one hand, and to present the Lebanese trademarks and concepts at a forum which is a hub for most renowned investors from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and some Asian countries. Kas’a discussed with the Paris Expo director the importance of his country’s presence in this year’s event, and the need to activate it in the coming years at a larger exhibition area consistent with the success it reaped. (An Nahar, Al Diyar, March 27, 2019)

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Caree Guidance Exhibition at Balamand University-Kura campus

27-3-2019

In collaboration with BLOM Youth section at BLOM Bank, the Center of Recruitment Services at Balamand University organized on March 23 the annual Career Guidance Fair targeting high school students in North Lebanon. A statement by the university said that, such activities contribute to raising awareness among the young generation helping them to pick the right discipline in line with the career they carry passion for. The above exhibition allowed around 800 student beneficiaries to attend 20 different lectures by specialists, the statement added. This is the sixth year in a row, which makes the event an anticipated successful annual scene at the Balamand campus in Kura. (Al Diyar, March 27, 2019)

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‘Illegitimate child’ dropped from personal status registries

27-3-2019

Following the January 2018 decision advising all registries to refrain from including ‘illegitimate child’ in any individual registers (c.f: https://goo.gl/LW9CiD), the director general of Personal Statues, Brig. Gen. Elias Khoury, issued a Circular No. 38 yesterday regarding comments included on the registration statement. According to the circular, a large number of registrars still add in terms which discriminate between citizens or expose their status or their private lives without any legal justification. Khoury asked all concerned registry officers to be careful when drafting the individual registers, taking into consideration the privacy and dignity of each citizen by not adding any unwanted observation. The only exception is that which is related to requests by the judicial or security authorities to do so. (Al Mustaqbal, March 27, 2019)

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Gender added on applications for parliamentary by-elections

27-3-2019

The ministry of interior, represented by the director of the political and refugee affairs, Faten Yunes, issued this week the forms for candidates to the parliamentary by-elections in Tripoli 2019 which included a new gender identification male/female category. The latter will be added to the applications for candidacy to the membership of any representative council or position at the local and national levels. In a statement released yesterday, the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) commended the interior’s initiative. It noted that in 2017, the commission demanded the inclusion of the gender category to prevent confusing between sexes, and to facilitate statistics concerning participation of Lebanese women in the political life and decision making. (Al Mustaqbal, March 27, 2019)

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Applying for national poverty program

26-3-2019

The ministry of social affairs (MoSA) clarified in a statement on March 23 the method of obtaining the Emergency National Poverty Targeting Program (ENPTP) and the individual disability card. The information that has been surfacing on the media and social media is reportedly inaccurate. Regarding the ENPTP cards, the statement explained that concerned citizens should apply at the designated centers, followed by a field inspection of the applicant’s home where a detailed questionnaire or form is filled. Based on the results, cards are issued to around 44,000 extremely poor households across Lebanon. MoSA pointed out that the figure 44,000 has been determined after a joint survey between involved parties including the council of ministers, MoSA, the World Bank and FAO, corresponding to the allocated financing. The ministry statement also stressed that the economic reality of beneficiaries will be updated periodically. As for the handicapped personal card, MoSA maintained that the disabled person in subject has to undergo a medical examination at the centers of the provision of the rights of disabled persons to assess the degree of disability, whether it fits list specified by MoSA and the ministry of health. Based on that, the applicant will or will not benefit from the above card. For more, kindly visit the link below: https://goo.gl/AJPpCg. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, March 23, 24, 2019)
 

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Violence against women, children in Babnin, Minyeh and Burj Barajneh

26-3-2019

In the latest violence incidents against women and children in the country, the ISF General Directorate- PR Department, said in a statement on March 22, that on March 3, 2019, the body of Samya Taleb (45), was discovered with her hands tied inside her house in Babnin, Akkar. Upon investigations, the suspect was identified as her husband’s brother M.T (born in 1967, Lebanese), who, in the beginning, denied any involvement in the crime, but confessed to the murder later. He said it started with a fight when her son broke the glass of the suspect’s van parked in the house’s yard. The latter pushed the victim, where she fell at the edge of the stairs. The ISF directorate also announced on March 20, that the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau at the Judicial Police Unit, received a complaint filed by a woman to the Public Prosecutor in the North against A. D (born in 1996, Palestinian). The reported charge is sexual harassment, abuse, threat, attempted rape and filming the victim without her knowledge. The investigation led to the arrest of the defendant who admitted that he met girls from different nationalities via social media, lured them and took them to a private place where he filmed them and threatened to post their photos if they didn’t pay him. On the other hand, the ISF directorate on March 15 circulated the photo of Fatma Mashlab (born in 1994, Lebanese) who left her parent’s house in Burj Barajneh on March 14, 2019 to an unknown destination. Also, yesterday, a newborn was found tossed near a trash container on the Minyeh-Deniyyeh highway, where he was transferred to Al Khayr Hospital for examination. Security forces arrived at the scene and started investigation. (Al Mustaqbal, March 16, 21, 23, 24, 2019)

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Around 40 thousand girls out of schools in Lebanon

26-3-2019

Citing ESCWA figures for 2017 published on the World Bank Group website, Al Akhbar said, around 37,844 girls at the age of elementary education are not enrolled in schools compared to some 23,817 boys. In the Arab world, the statistics have shown that the number of unenrolled girls have exceeded 4 million against 3,666,000 boys. (Al Akhbar, March 23, 2019)

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Female entrepreneurs transfer skills to rural women

26-3-2019

In partnership with UN Women and the UN Global Compact, the Blessing Foundation launched on March 22 the Female Mentoring Program 2019-2020. The program supports talents of women entrepreneurs in rural areas throughout Lebanon linking them with leading women entrepreneurs to the end of developing their skills and improving and marketing the handicrafts they create. To note, the above mentoring program complements the SheMinLebnen initiative kicked off in 2018 under the patronage of prime minister Saad Hariri (c.f: https://goo.gl/u5GeCd) . The projects is expected to target some 430 rural entrepreneurs supported by the initiative. On the program, founder of the Blessing Foundation, Rima Husseini, explained that rural women are at the core of the initiative, and will become the ambassadors of change in their own communities where they will set up their small enterprises and generate prospects for others. For her part, the director of Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls Program by UN Women, Faten Tibi, said the program aims as well to engage the private sector which encompasses nearly 80% of jobs in Lebanon. Likewise, the minister of state for economic empowerment of youth and women, Violette Safadi, pointed out that her ministry will support all the above through its strategic plan focused on three main themes: build capacities and skills of women, encourage them to venture into entrepreneurship and thirdly, modernize and adjust discriminatory laws in order to enable women to participate in decision making. ( L’Orient Le Jour, March 23, 2019) Previous related news: Online platform to network rural women with international designers https://www.weeportal-lb.org/news/online-platform-network-rural-women-international-designers ‘Something from Lebanon’ for rural women https://www.weeportal-lb.org/news/%E2%80%98something-lebanon%E2%80%99-rural-women Touch and Fe-Male partner on rural women empowerment https://www.weeportal-lb.org/news/touch-and-fe-male-partner-rural-women-empowerment Demanding rights for rural women on their International Day https://www.weeportal-lb.org/news/demanding-rights-rural-women-their-international-day SEAL review its record in rural women empowerment https://www.weeportal-lb.org/news/seal-review-its-record-rural-women-empowerment

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After potato, apple crisis around the corner

22-3-2019

After the crisis of the Egyptian potato dumping domestic markets, the chief of the Lebanese Farmers Association, Antoine Howayek, warned of the resurfacing of the apple crisis in the coming weeks, An Nahar reported. Howayek told the newspaper that apples are stacked in cold storage in many areas across Lebanon. Farmers, he said, are faced with difficulties in disposing of their annual produce, in addition to the daily smuggling of the fruits from neighboring Syria. Combined with the marketing hurdle, Lebanese apples this season did not boast quality specifications because of the drizzles and cold storms that hit Lebanon which resulted in the production of large amounts of the crop that cannot be sold, according to Howayek. The continued recklessness on part of the government is a crime, Howayek maintained, stressing that agriculture cannot recuperate outside tangible plans, including the set-up of the National Bank for Agricultural Development, and disaffiliating the agriculture chamber from the chamber of commerce. Meanwhile, the minister of agriculture, Hassan Lakis, is preparing to visit Syria to discuss the facilitation of the entry of made-in-Lebanon products into Syrian territory, An Nahar wrote. Discussions are expected to cover the high fees imposed on Lebanese trucks and how to ease the expedite the flow of Lebanese goods into Arab outlets, An Nahar said. (An Nahar, March 20, 2019)

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