Claiming Equal Citizenship

The President of the Women’s Rights Club, Rania Jaber, opened the event with the announcement that the campaign had collected over 450 signatures. The event included two days of campaign-related activities in which attendees had an opportunity to read over educational materials about nationality rights as well as listen to a panel discussing the legal opportunities for women and their families.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on September 1st, 2006

Conflict, the need to earn a livelihood, and other factors lead to international migration. Statistics on migration to and from Arab countries are rare, but the existing data shows that the number of women married to foreigners has dramatically increased.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 25th, 2006

“We want to change just two words of this law to say ‘a child is born Lebanese of a Lebanese father or mother,’ just two words,” - Roula Masri, gender program officer, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), Lebanon

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 25th, 2006

“[W]hether or not you are a national will determine very much whether you have the right to representation, whether you have the right to social entitlements, whether you’re a full citizen or not.” - Lina Abou-Habib, Director of Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A) in Lebanon in an interview with Women’s Learning Partnership on March 4, 2006.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 24th, 2006

The Lebanese Campaign Team has organized regional seminars and workshops through universities and amongst civil society to raise awareness, disseminate information and garner support for the Nationality campaign from all members of the community.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 15th, 2006