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Women and politics in the Arab region
25-7-2017
The women in Politics Forum in the Arab Region in cooperation with the Arab Network for Electoral Democracy launched yesterday the first report on the situation of women and politics in the Arab region. The report included monitoring and analysis of remarkable women political trends in the Arab countries, in terms of the following: The role of the women's movements in negotiating their political and constitutional rights; monitoring the status of women in some Arab constitutions and the notable accomplishments by women in this respect; analysis of the main legislations regulating the electoral process in regional countries and women’s conditions as seen by these laws in view of the principle of equality, non-discrimination and other positive measures in support of women’s rights. On the Lebanese front, the report noticed that women groups have evolved in the middle of the twentieth century, ensuring a solid foundation for women specific bodies within civil society. And they developed in successive waves, starting with mobilization within the upper classes in the framework of struggle for independence. Following independence, the second wave of left-wing movements was formed only to break off during the civil war and to witness a new beginning which coincided with the Beijing world conference on women and its adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, succeeded by a proliferation of non-governmental organizations. )An Nahar, July 25, 2017(
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