League of Women’ Rights lists its demands on the occasion of International Women's Day

The League of Women’ Rights (LWF) organised yesterday a get together with the media on the occasion of International Women's Day.  During the event, LWF expressed a number of demands related to citizens' livelihoods including the need for safety and stability at social, political, economic, and democratic and trade union level.  LWF noted the need to continue working on the reform of discriminatory laws such as the penal code, the NSSF, protection of women from domestic violence, the nationality law as well as the civil family law.  The women organisation also called for changing women's negative image in the media and for creating more spaces for women's issues to be covered by the media.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Al-Safir 4 March 2014