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Three female LU students winners of Francophone contest

1-4-2019

During a ceremony held at USJ, the Lebanese University (LU) on March 28, reaped one golden and two silver medals at the Golden Word of La Francophonie 2019. The golden medal laureate is Marie Renee Kamoo3 (School of Sciences-LU Second Branch) who also the First Audience Award following training at the Center for Linguistics and Translation, Faculty of Arts and Humanities-LU. The two silver medals went to, Sara Habr (Faculty of Economic Studies and Business Administration-LU) and Christele Jiha (School of Information-LU). To recall, the competition is organized by the University of Francophonie (L’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie), in collaboration with L’Ecole Superieure des Affaires and Bassil Fleihan Institute of Finance. It comes after a written exam which took place on March 14 at all LU faculties and participation universities. (Al Diyar, March 30, 2019)

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NOWR: Poor research output prevents women from academic advancement

29-3-2019

In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper highlighted the work of the National Observatory for Women in Research (NOWR), ‘Your role females’, launched on March 11 (https://bit.ly/2FJT3iN), An Nahar spoke to coordinator Tamara Zein, who explained the purpose from the observatory which is to understand the nature of research in Lebanon and measure women’s participation to this effect. The action plan, Zein maintained, will continue for two years before the observatory becomes a solid platform. The observatory seeks to acknowledge the contributions by Lebanese female researchers and streamline them through creation of an electronic portal and draw attention to the talents of females on social media. It also aims to provide direct support vehicles or channels with concerned international agencies and institutions; develop the capacities of researches at the start of their career, notably in the transitional post doctorate period, up to changing the legislations related to Lebanese women in the academic and research areas. She pointed out that the National Council for Scientific Research currently provides funds for doctoral scientific research, noting that nearly 72% of females benefit from the program, with a decline in the number of researcher beneficiaries (about 40%). The rate of women candidates for the award of scientific excellence launched by the Council, is very limited when compared to male contestants, Zein said. The Council receives around 110 applications, out of which 27 applications are submitted by women against 83 by men, Zein added. This modest participation by female researchers reflects negatively in their seizing of advanced academic positions, she lamented, pointing to the low rate of female college deans in Lebanon (between 10% to 14%), while women presidents do not exceed 5%. (An Nahar, March 29, 2019)

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Deir ez-Zor women raise rubble from their city

29-3-2019

In its issue of today, Al Akhbar newspaper brought to light the work being done by the women of Syrian Deir ez-Zor who, with the supervision of UN agencies, are raising the rubble from their demolished area in an attempt to revive it. Speaking to the newspaper, Mona, one of these women, said “cleaning the wreck is not dirty work or a sin, it is a job like any other job.” Ghada, in turn, indicated that she never tires of removing the debris from the destroyed buildings. “I have 10 children,” she noted, adding, “I cook in the evenings and head to work early in the morning. My children encourage me in this.” She went on to say, Deir ez-Zor women take pride in our work, stressing, “we need to work together with men to restore the charm the city once had.” On the other hand, Hassan Faraj, pointed out that, after the first visit to his neighborhood, he lost hope in returning. However, after the good work of Deir ez-Zor ladies, I regained hope, and began small repairs to my house, as he mentioned. For his part, Mohammad Hussein, another city resident, said, “just fancying the fact that women in our neighborhood are involved in these projects is something big,” adding, they have proven that restoring life to the shattered city is not exclusive to males. (Al Akhbar, March 29, 2019)

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Women in Lebanon cause less traffic accidents than men

29-3-2019

Al Akhbar today published statistics by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) on driving in Lebanon, pointing out that women are less likely to cause fatal or non-fatal car accidents. Males are responsible for nearly 80% of accidents, according to above statistics, which covered the period between January 1st 2018 and January 9th of the same year. Women caused 11 deaths compared to 204 accidents caused by males which lead to 207 deaths, and 2297 non-fatal accidents resulting in 2483 injuries. Al Akhbar wrote that these figures recall to mind a traffic report by the French Police in 2012, which said, “if men drove their cars like women, we would have fewer casualties on our road.” Al Akhbar mentioned that traffic statistics has broken the macho prestige and the patriarchal culture which has always linked driving expertise to males. Now, women can easily brag and boast their style and efficiency in driving. (Al Akhbar, March 29, 2019)

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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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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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Women sit-in in at Shiite Council for raising age of custody

22-3-2019

On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the National Campaign to Increase Age of Custody for the Shiite Sect staged a sit-in yesterday in front of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council to demand raising the age of custody from 2 to 7 years for males, and from 7 to 9 for females. Demonstrators also called for enacting a joint custody arrangement between parents after set age. During the protest, women raised their voices against blatant corruption inside the Sharia courts, decrying deprivation of their motherhood. The Campaign pledged to take similar moves until demands are met. Coinciding with the sit-in, a meeting was held between a delegation of mothers and the secretary general of the Shiite Awkaf Department, Hassan Sharifeh, who listened to the stories of anguished mothers about injustices practiced by Jaafari courts. To name some, the procrastination in hearings and pronouncing verdicts and the suffering by mothers as a result of not raising the age of custody of their children. Al Akhbar newspaper wrote that, the meeting was meant to alleviate the impact of the protest, since Sharifeh did not deliberate or discuss any case, but rather listened to what the mothers had to say. He only promised to relay their demands to involved parties after six years from the start of the protest movement. “Demands cannot be voiced on the streets,” the Sheikh said, adding, “these women are my daughters, and the doors of the Council are always open.” Al Akhbar saw this as a restatement of the patriarchal system which views the female as a “daughter” who is ushered to designated places to request and claim her rights. (Al Akhbar, March 22, 2019)

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Empowerment certificates to 100 Regie women

21-3-2019

Le Regie Libanaise Des Tabacs et Tombacs distributed yesterday certificates to 100 of the daughters of tobacco farmers who completed women empowerment training courses in cooperation with the British Spring Board Program in a number of towns across Lebanon, including Duress (Beqaa), Haisa (Akkar) and Qseibeh, Aitaroun and Yater (South). The ceremony held at the Regie premises in Hadath was hosted by the NCLW vice president, Randa Assi Berri. The workshops were aimed to enhance the role of the working woman through empowering her to have more self-confidence and self-appreciation, and help her to make a positive impact in her community, personally and professionally. Berri on the occasion, praised the Regie’s efforts to ensure economic and social solidarity as well as economic development, and to strengthen the relationship between men and women through empowering them equally at various levels. She stressed the need to endorse the conviction of decision makers in committing to the principle of female representation quota in any future electoral law which she described as the cornerstone to start implementing mechanisms of actual women empowerment. (An Nahar, Al Diyar, March 21, 2019)
 

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