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Abeer Shbaro: Feminist and advisor to PM on women’s affairs
6-8-2019
In its issue of August 5, L’Orient Le Jour spotlighted the life and career of activist, NCLW vice president and advisor to prime minister for women’s affairs, Abeer Shbaro. Shbaro stressed that her main goal is to bring about equality between men and women and eliminate all discriminatory laws against women. As part of her work, Shbaro maintained, she witnesses the daily predicaments of Lebanese women incurred as a result of the predominant patriarchal system. She mentioned women victims of domestic violence and sexual harassment, divorced women deprived of their children, and women denied inheritance which naturally goes to their brothers, or women disallowed to confer nationality to their children, among other injustice. Shbaro told L’Orient Le Jour correspondent that she wanted to become a doctor but chose public health upon the persistence of her parents who argued that medicine conflicts with marital life and parenthood. She said she worked at a hospital before she met NCLW executive board member, Afifa Sayyid, and became tied up in the feminist movement. After 10 years in the field, she was chosen by prime minister Saad Hariri to help in the establishment of the ministry of women’s affairs, where she became advisor to former minister, Jean Ogassapian, when focus was on fighting sexual harassment. Shbaro said it is important to get the backing of politicians in order to press for women’s rights. (L’Orient Le Jour, August 6, 2019)
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