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NCLW calls for lifting CEDAW reservations on nationality
16-10-2017
In cooperation with ESCWA Center for Women, the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) organized on Friday a workshop entitled ‘International mechanisms for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women: Text and judicial application’. On the occasion, NCLW president Claudine Aoun Rokuz said gender equality in Lebanon, which is the first goal of the Commission, remains unfounded, due to injustices and prejudiced practices against women rooted in legislations inherited from a cumulative history of poverty, ignorance and oppression which are inferior to women. Aoun drew attention to some of the key existing mechanisms needed to realize above goals, including the Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The latter, Aoun reminded, has been ratified by Lebanon back in 1996 but with reservations on imparting equal rights a par with men to grant nationality to their children and “their status in the family as wife and a mother”. The NCLW, Aoun noted, strives to persuade members of Parliament to lift said reservations that are no longer useful to society, as she said. The sessions addressed many topics, namely, international mechanisms on the respect and protection of human rights; the role of the justice ministry in safeguarding human rights in general, and the rights of women; in addition to a brief on CEDAW provisions and Lebanon’s national responsibilities and commitments to this end. The workshop issued a number of recommendations binding criminal judges to use existing conventions in relation to cases of discrimination against women. On the other hand, the minister of state for administrative development, Inaya Izzedine, the only woman minister, disclosed to Al Diyar that she is working on the creation of a ‘citizen/State reconciliation’, because the relationship, as she said, is that of mistrust. Izzedine mentioned that this could be realized through several schemes, most notably the digital government project, but that requires a political decision. She also stressed the need for inter-ministerial cooperation to end corruption and all sorts of political and sectarian nepotism that serve like a buffer to perpetrators. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, October 16, 2017(
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