أصدرتْ حملة مقاطعة داعمي “إسرائيل” في لبنان البيانَ الآتي: هل بات لبنانُ مسرحاً لمن هبّ ودبّ من داعمي العدوّ الإسرائيليّ؟ فبعد بلاسيبو، ودي جاي تييستو، وآرمين فان بيورين، وغيرهم ممن أحيوْا حفلاتٍ في لبنان بعد إحيائهم حفلاتٍ ف…ي “إسرائيل”، متجاهلين جرائمَ هذه الدولة وعنصريتَها واحتلالَها وانتهاكَها لسيادتنا، يستضيف كازينو لبنان حفلاً للمغنّية لارا فابيان في [...]
Hello fellow bloggers and online gurus! [Links of bloggers who've already supported is below] We need your help in mobilizing the masses to join the march against Lebanon’s backwards rape laws on January 14 at 12pm from Ministry of Interior in Sanayeh to Parliament in Downtown. Please help us spread the word by blogging about [...]
A lot of arguments have surfaced against the criminalization of marital rape, against considering forced sex between spouses rape, and against its inclusion in the law to protect family violence currently being deliberated in parliament. Nasawiya presented some of these arguments and their rebuttals in order to dispel the myths that continue to plague women’s [...]
Starting November 3 and through to December, we will be hosting prominent women’s rights activists in Lebanon for intimate discussions on their personal and political feminist journeys. Every Thursday at 7pm in November, join us at Nasawiya to meet and talk with the women who have inspired social change in Lebanon for years and decades. [...]
صادق مجلس النواب في جلسته التشريعية البارحة في ٤-٨-٢٠١١ على اقتراح القانون الرامي الى تعديل المادة ٥٦٢ المتعلقة بجرائم “الشرف” من قانون العقوبات اللبناني. وكانت لجنة الإدارة والعدل النيابية التي يرأسها النائب روبير غانم من البقاع الغربي (مستقل ضمن تكتل ١٤ أذار) قد رفعت التوصية بإلغاء المادة ٥٦٢ المتعلقة بالعذر المخفف لجرائم الشرف في ١٦-٥-٢٠١١، بعدما [...]
Out of 43 points in the Cabinet Ministerial Statement, only one was concerned with improving the lives of women in Lebanon. That’s 2.3% of the ministers’ concern. And it ranked 40 / 43. That’s bottom 10% of their priorities. The point of action, however, reads as a strong commitment and may give us some hope [...]
Premier Najib Mikati has announced the formation of a new cabinet (after months of deliberation) of 30 ministers. Check list in Arabic and English. The new cabinet has no women ministers. That’s zero, nil, nothing. The previous cabinet had two women ministers. This one has none. Needless to say the women’s movement rejects this total [...]
In preparation for the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8), we are hitting the streets on Saturday, March 5, 2011 and Sunday, March 6, 2011 to talk to women about the challenges they face in Lebanon and what changes they would like to see. We’re calling our action: Hello Women, that’s #HelloWomen for [...]
Happy International Women’s Day! We will post all IWD events in Lebanon on this page and keep it updated. Please support our events by linking to this page from your blog using these awesome graphics below. On Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6, we will be going down to the streets to ask thousands [...]
This Wednesday, December 22 at 7pm, we are happy to host a talk with Maya Mikdashi, PhD candidate at Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. The presentation, based on her recently published article, will highlight the laws that apply to and are practiced by Lebanese male and female citizens. A selection of both civil and personal [...]
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