The Daily Star - Campaign aims to enhance female health staff’s status, July 19 2012

BEIRUT: An awareness campaign aimed at ending discrimination against female health staff in Lebanon was launched under the patronage of the Social Affairs Ministry. The campaign, entitled “In Safe Hands,” is aimed at ending both physical and verbal harassment and other discriminatory treatment experienced by women in the health sector. It is part of a three-and-a-half-year project to enhance the working conditions and status of female medical staff, run by NGO Amel, which hopes to encourage more women to work in the medical field. Research conducted during the project, which was funded by a 793,000-euro ($972,000) grant from the EU, in coordination with Italian NGO CESTAS, revealed that poor investment in women was to the detriment of economic growth.

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