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On the occasion of IWD: Claudine Aoun Rukuz, entrepreneur and activist for women's rights
8-3-2019
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, L’Orient Le Jour highlighted the career life of the head of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) Claudine Aoun Rukuz. Rukuz, to recall, is an entrepreneur and a political and social activist as well as a campaigner for women’s rights, and is also the founder and CEO of Clementine Advertising Agency. In an interview with L’Orient Le Jour, Rukuz boasted that she devotes all her energy for the advancement of the status of Lebanese women, her prime goal as she put it. Rukuz said her mother, which by the law, should vacate the position of the NCLW presidency, preferred to hand it over to a younger person to give more vigor and dynamism to the post. Hence, she was chosen for the job. Rukuz spelled out her intention to change old mindsets and laws in the right direction to help women retrieve their rights. Lebanese women, she maintained, have all the capacities and skills, but they need greater self-confidence. She explained that women in this country are holders of high degrees, yet the social prejudiced stereotypes are the main hitch, which she is working hard to revolutionize, as she promised. Aoun decried the injustices against Lebanese women, who are deprived of the right to pass on nationality to their family members, stressing the need to end all domestic violence and pledging to seek the support of the heads of spiritual courts to this end. (L’Orient Le Jour, March 8, 2019)
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