Daily Star - Workshop Calls For Women's Quota In Elections

BEIRUT: Imposing a women’s quota in elections, amending the nationality law and adopting civil laws for personal status matters, were some of the solutions suggested by the National Women Empowerment Campaign workshop held on Saturday. The workshop was organized by the campaign in collaboration with the National Gathering to Eliminate Discrimination against Women, the Catalan Organization for Cooperative Development and the Catalan Peace Organization. Minister of State Mona Ofeish and Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Juan Carlos Gafo Acevedo were present at the gathering, which stressed the need to give Lebanese women their right by adopting civil laws for personal status matters, implementing a women’s quota and giving women married to foreign men the right to pass their nationality to their husbands and children. “Discrimination against women in all sectors has increased the levels of poverty and unemployment among women worldwide,” said media coordinator at the National Gathering, Marie Nassif al-Debs. – The Daily Star