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2018 elections: Hariri & Mashnuk support women’s right to confer nationality
24-4-2018
During one of his elections tours yesterday, the minister of interior, Nuhad Mashnuk, expressed his support for women’s right to confer nationality to their children, promising to treat this topic as a priority in the post elections period. And in his response to the draft bill proposed last March 21 by the current foreign minister and which exempted women married to men from neighboring states from this right (c.f: https://bit.ly/2pHk2lB), Mashnuk maintained that the nationality should be given without conditions no matter what. Also, prime minister Saad Hariri during his meeting with economic blocs yesterday, stressed the need for investing in Lebanon’s youth, noting that a key investment should be in Lebanese women. He reiterated his backing for women’s rights in granting nationality to their children, saying, “My mother is an Iraqi citizen, and if it were the opposite, I would not be here today. We must break free from such uptight mentalities and give women the right to pass citizenship to their family members,” hoping one day a woman will be on top of the cabinet of ministers. (Al Mustaqbal, April 24, 2018)
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