“Your Right is a Guarantee for your Family” campaign promotes social security for women

The ‘Search for Common Ground’ organization is planning to launch so-called ‘Your Right is a Guarantee for your Family’ campaign to raise awareness among women on their rights in social security and introduce amendments to relevant legislations, according to An Nahar’s issue last Saturday. The activity set for November 12 comes to warn of the prejudiced behavior against women in benefitting from the social security fund. The prevailing law gives the spouse the right to unconditional coverage of his partner in illness or maternity, while the insured wife can only cover her husband when he is over 60 or has a handicap. The above campaign, to be noted, is part of a larger project, ‘Everybody Wins: the Economic and Social Empowerment of Women in Lebanon’ funded by the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and implemented by SFCG in partnership with Alef- Act for Human Rights. The project is carried out with the collaboration of 9 associations namely, the Progressive Women’s Union, Smart Center for Media and Advocacy, Nahar al Chabab, ABAAD, Amel Foundation International, CARITAS Lebanon-Migrants’ Center, the Committee for the Follow-up of Women’s Issues, the Lebanese organization for Studies and Training and the Women’s Union Association for Workers in the North. (An Nahar, November 7, 2015)