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Arab States: No Arab Spring without women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2012-01-27 12:59

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Under the banner of “No Spring without Women,” a Lebanese feminist organisation has organized a march in Beirut, as part of the 5th New Arab Woman Forum. The slogan of the march is “Sawa Sawa”, which in this context means “Let’s walk together, let’s make it together”, calling for a Spring that includes both men and women. Before getting the invitation to this march, my mind was already preoccupied with the future of Arab women after the revolutions and how women’s status might be impacted in each of the Arab countries. My concern is: can there be Arab union or organisation to sustain Arab women’s status in the post-revolution era?

Women in the Arab world have suffered in the revolutions, but the question now is, what will the outcome of all this suffering and sacrifice be? To date, the revolutions have not resulted in any improvement in women’s status. In Egypt, there are now voices saying that women should leave the revolution to men, and during a demonstration on International Women’s Day in March, men jeered at the women marching, telling them to go home and feed their babies.

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Read more in Alarbiya.net, published 25 January


Lebanon:The Women Who Are Changing Society Through Football

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-10-05 12:30

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Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for those in post-conflict countries.

Farah and Mirna are two young women on an important mission: they want to change Lebanese society by promoting gender equality and giving young girls the opportunities they didn’t have themselves.

“We are here at the CCPA seminar because we want to change something,” says 28-year-old Mirna. Together with her friend Farah, Mirna is taking part in a seminar in Beirut for volunteers in the CCPA Popular Club programme. The two school teachers want to establish their own sports club for girls in their hometown. “There is nothing like this in our town. All sports clubs are for boys and men, but we want to make a club for girls – and only girls!”

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Read the whole article in MidEastPost


Lebanon: Women on a Political Backslide

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-07-06 12:38

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BEIRUT, Jul 6, 2011 (IPS) - Following five months of bitter political wrangling, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati finally announced a new government in mid-June. But while many Lebanese feel relieved over the long overdue appointments, gender equality campaigners despair that there is not a single female among 30 ministers appointed to the new Cabinet. It has further ruffled activist feathers that this glaring omission has failed to elicit the condemnation they are demanding.

"I have to confess I was not expecting the number of women to increase but I was certainly not expecting women to disappear completely," says Lina Abou-Habib, executive director of the Lebanese gender equality organization, the Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action (CRTD- A). She tells IPS the announcement of the new Cabinet line-up was met with "shock and horror" from fellow activists. Yet even after more than two weeks, the absence of women has been almost universally ignored by the local and international media.

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Lebanon: Women’s groups press for unity on rights and nationality law

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-06-21 07:08

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The Lebanese Women’s Council called Friday on all women’s rights groups to put politics aside and unite toward holding MPs accountable in the coming elections.

The National Committee for the Follow-up on Women’s Issues (CFUWI) held a news conference at the Press Federation, Friday, announcing the conclusion of another stage of its project on “Lebanese women’s rights and the Nationality Law.”

The conference also called on women’s rights groups to put partisan politics aside and take a decisive and unified stance against the formation of a male-dominated Cabinet, holding MPs accountable in the coming election, scheduled for 2013.

 

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For the whole article, visit The Daily Star


Lebanon: Women's rights groups welcome legislative amendments

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 19:46

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Women’s rights groups have this week celebrated the approval of several legal amendments by the parliamentary committee on justice and the parliamentary budget committee that would bring the country closer to legal gender equality if passed by Parliament.

Meeting Monday, the committee on justice voted to repeal the so-called “honor killing law,” under which a lesser sentence may be handed out if a defendant is said to be acting “in a state of anger.” The committee also voted to apply the laws on adultery equally to men and women. Under the current legislation a man can be tried for adultery only if committed in the marital home, unlike women.



 

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For more information, please visit: The Daily Star


Lebanon: Hasan urges bigger female role in public life

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-19 00:01

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Caretaker Finance Minister Raya al-Hasan expressed her hope for national legislation on a quota for women’s representation in Parliament, the National News Agency reported Thursday. Hasan made her remarks at the opening session of the “Women in the Arab World, Africa and Asia” conference, organized by the Arab Women Forum in recognition of its tenth anniversary and held at the Lancaster House in London.


 

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For more information, please visit: The Daily Star


Arab Women Techies Meeting

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-04-21 01:54
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A four-day workshop will host 30 female participants from all over the Arab World. The workshop will be a space where the participants feel comfortable to show off their technical skills through skill sharing sessions, where each participant can offer to teach others about a specific tool or approach in applying technology.

For detais, Arab Women Techies

Or contact organizers: info@arabtechies.net


Lebanon: 20 percent women's quota in polls 'not enough'

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-02 08:53

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Following years of lobbying by civil-society organizations, Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved the adoption of a women’s quota for the municipal elections. After the rejection of a proposal by Interior and Municipalities Minister Ziyad Baroud calling for a women’s quota of 30 percent, Cabinet agreed women should form a minimum of 20 percent of all candidates on ballot lists for the elections, which are slated for June.

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But while a quota will help bring in more unfamiliar female faces into decision-making positions, many say it should be complemented by other efforts to promote women in politics. “The quota is a short-term solution to help move women into decision-making and leadership role but it’s not a long-term solution to women’s political participation,” says Nadya Khalife, women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. To read the complete story The Daily Star.

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