Hariri criticizes gender discrimination in Nationality while honoring 90 military women

On the occasion of the national flag day, the “National Committee for the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Greater Lebanon” honored last Saturday some 90 Lebanese women members of various security and military institutions and two women UNIFIL officers. The event took place at the Pine Palace, under the patronage of Prime Minister Tamam Salam represented by his wife and in the presence of MP Bahiya Hariri and a crowd of social and political dignitaries. In her speech, Hariri lauded the efforts by those women “who take on such demanding responsibilities in the Army, the General Security Forces, the Internal Security Forces and the State Security”, and those of the only Lebanese women at the Civil Aviation institution and two women UNIFIL officers. Hariri, while pointing out how women face challenges with courage, hope, determination and devotion, she stigmatized the denial of women’s rights to transmit the nationality to their children, a denial of the constitution which she described as intolerable. (Al Mustaqbal, November 22, 2015)