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Divorced Lebanese women allowed to included children in their personal registry
30-8-2018
The general Director of Personal Status at the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, General Elias Khouri, issued yesterday a memorandum allowing divorced Lebanese women to include their children in their civil register. The move was justified as being within the framework of ensuring gender equality in access to official documentation within and beyond the civil register. The memorandum further added that “all heads of civil register offices are required to provide divorced women, upon demand, with a civil register which includes the name of their children, and their register numbers and that is after coordination with the civil register in question”. The statement further added that “divorced Lebanese women, should they want to, may obtain a civil register with the names of all her children from pervious divorce/s. The request is to be made by the person in question or through her legal representative to the general Director of Personal Status.” Laila Awada, activist lawyer working with Kafa, noted that this will benefit women who were denied this right . Coordinator of My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family, Karima Chebbo, welcomed this step by called for bolder actions to maintain the full citizenship if women as independent beings namely a broader reform of family laws. Karima further lamented that this move excludes women whose children are not nationals. (Al Mustakba and Al Akhbar, August 30th 2018)
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