Women’s Committee of the Future Movement’s Seminar on CEDAW || Newspapers (Arabic)

The Women's Committee of the Future Movement organized in Beirut a seminar on the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women as part of FM’s efforts to strengthen women’s political participation. The seminar sought to raise awareness about the Convention, its key areas of concerns and its implementation.  A reminder that Lebanon has already signed and ratified the Convention in 1996 but placed a number of its clauses under reservation, namely:

• Clause 1 of the article (16) on equal rights in the family
• Clause 1 of the article (29) on dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of the present Convention
• Clause 2 of the article (9) on equal rights to transmit nationality

The seminar was organised within the franework of the Future movement's effort to strengthen women's political participation.

Original text in Arabic: Al-mustaqbal