‘Your Right is a Guarantee for Your Family’ discusses in Tripoli gender discrimination in social security law

As part of the campaign ‘Your Right is a Guarantee for Your Family’, SMART Center for Media and Advocacy organized last week a meeting at Rashid Karami’s Cultural Center in Tripoli in the presence of the President of the Federation of Fayhaa Municipalities, Amer Rafi3i to discuss the need for reform of the social security laws and systems in Lebanon. SMART representative, Randa Yassir, highlighted the injustice and discrimination against women prevalent in a number of clauses of social security laws. She stressed that provisions related to family compensation, pension, layoff, hospitalization and medical care reflect a clear discriminatory approach. Yassir also outlined the Campaign’s demands, goals and strategies. (Al Mustaqbal, December 27, 2015)