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A discriminatory draft amendment to Lebanese nationality law
22-3-2018
On Mother’s Day, foreign minister Jibran Bassil, presented in a press conference yesterday an amendment to the current nationality law allowing Lebanese women to pass nationality to their children, just like men, with the exception of the neighboring states, in connotation to Syrian and Palestinian children. The exception also applies to Lebanese men married to refugees or displaced women, on pretext of preventing collective naturalization or resettlement. Commenting on Bassil’s move, the coordinator of My Nationality is A Right for Me and My Family campaign, Karima Shebbo, said the new proposal which is projected to prevent discrimination on the basis of gender does in fact discriminate between Lebanese women and continues to undermine the right of a woman to choose her partner irrespective of his nationality. Shebbo warned that the file should be handled separately from the electoral bazaar and political skirmishes. Lebanese mothers married to non-Lebanese have been struggling to prevent the alienation of their own children and to guarantee them a decent life in the face of the pervasive patriarchal nationality law which according to its first article, ‘a child is deemed Lebanese if the child is born of a Lebanese father, with no mention of the mother at all!. (For more on the draft law: http://bit.ly/2pvP7cY). (Al Akhbar, Al Mustaqbal, An Nahar March 22, 2018)
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