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LCW calls on women legislators to promote role of women
27-7-2018
The head of the Lebanese Council of Women, Iqbal Dughan, accompanied by members of the LCW board, visited yesterday the newly elected MPs, Bahiya Hariri, Paula Yacubian, Rula Tabsh and Dima Jamali and presented a set of requests the LCW seeks to be ratified by the Legislature. These include the following: 1) promoting women’s political participation through adoption and inclusion of a minimum 30 percent female representation quota in the electoral law; 2) adoption of a women quota in the municipal law; 3) achieving equality in the nationality law; 4) elimination of discrimination from the Penal Code; 5) raising the age of marriage to 18 years at least; 6) amendment of article 522 of the Penal Code; 7) ratification of amendments to the Law on the Protection of Women and Other Family Members from Domestic Violence; 8) development of legislations and policies to endorse the economic empowerment of women and ensure their health and social protection, and 9) the representation of LCW at the sessions of parliamentary committees , particularly, the committee on women and the committee on human rights. The women MPs at the end of the meeting stressed their continued cooperation with LCW to the end of enforcement of legislations in support of women. ( AL Mustaqbal, July 27, 2018)
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