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My Nationality Campaign stresses speedy amendment of nationality law
29-10-2018
My Nationality is A Right for Me and My Family campaign screened ‘Lebanon my motherland’ film which covers testimonies of children of Lebanese mothers from various nationalities and affiliations who face many challenges and obstacles in their lives. During the press conference held on October 26 and attended by representatives of civil society and international organizations, the Campaign renewed its demand to amend the nationality law to include the right of Lebanese women in passing nationality to their children. The campaign’s coordinator, Karima Chebbo, criticized the unresponsiveness of politicians who, in their elections speeches, pledged to give priority to end discrimination against Lebanese women and rectify the nationality law to this effect. Today, however, Chebbo lamented, there remains only one draft bill submitted by the Democratic Gathering lawmaker Hadi Abulhissen. The Campaign, Chebbo maintained, rejects insinuations by certain political factions to the issuance of so-called green card or temporary passport, refusing to accept any compromises. The only solution, she said, is a fair nationality law that ensures equality between all citizens, men and women to the end of social justice. Chebbo concluded by saying, the campaign will follow up the referral of the draft law to the concerned parliamentary committees and will stage parallel mobilization and advocacy actions on ground. My Nationality Campaign, she stressed, will not rest until the law is modified, warning that it will not concede any approach to women’s rights through narrow sectarian and demographic perspectives. (Al Hayat, L’Orient Le Jour, October 27, 2018)
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