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	<title>Claiming Equal Citizenship</title>
	<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship</link>
	<description>The Campaign for Arab Women's Right to Nationality</description>
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		<title>Documentary Film about the Egyptian Nationality Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA["My Nationality is My and My Family's Right" is a new documentary that discusses the problems with the current Egyptian Nationality Law and features testimonies of those affected by discrimination and exclusion. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2010/01/egypt-nationality-law-2/</link>
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		<title>Nationality Campaign/Lebanon Press Conference, November 25, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2009, more than 130 women and men gathered to take part in the Arab Women’s Right to Nationality Campaign's press conference at the Order of Engineers in Beirut, Lebanon. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/lebanon-press/</link>
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		<title>Nationality Campaign resumes its activities&#8230; with vigor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the promising new political atmosphere now prevailing in Lebanon, the nationality campaign will hold a press conference on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 12:00 noon at the Syndicate of Engineers. The aim of this conference is to share recent updates on the campaign, especially recent developments in the case of Samira Soueidan, and the annulment of a previous court ruling passing on her Lebanese nationality to her children.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/campaign-resumes/</link>
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		<title>Feminist demands and expectations from the forthcoming Ministerial Declaration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claiming Equal Citizenship and Equality without Reservation campaigns urge new Lebanese cabinet to commit to legal reform and action for gender equality.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/ministerial-declaration/</link>
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		<title>Ideas and Actions for the Nationality Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[... an indicator of the social change that is spreading across the country and the grassroots efforts to amend the nationality law.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/lebanon-campaign-roundtable/</link>
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		<title>Being Born to a Lebanese Woman is a Crime…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…One Risks to be Deported for.
Khaled, now 21, is born to a Lebanese mother and a Palestinian father registered in Syria. He spent all of his life with his mother in Lebanon. At his coming of age, Khaled turns into a persona non grata in his mother’s homeland. He has not committed, has not violated public order and has not even earned a traffic ticket! ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/lebanon-deportation/</link>
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		<title>Age of Stupid in Women’s Rights in Lebanon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the history of the women's right to nationality campaign, hardly any Lebanese official or politician made such a clear, courageous and inspirational statement!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/11/women-rights-lebanon/</link>
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		<title>British Ambassador Promotes Nationality Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our partner in Lebanon, CRTD-A:
During the “Age of Stupid” screening to highlight global warming and climate change, Frances Guy, the British Ambassador to Lebanon, arrived on a bicycle wearing the Nationality Campaign t-shirt. Two advocacy campaign messages in one go. :)

(cross-posted on WLP&#8217;s blog)
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		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/10/british-ambassador/</link>
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		<title>GULF: Gender Discrimination in Citizenship Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women who marry foreigners cannot obtain citizenship for their husbands or children. The discrimination in citizenship laws means there are "stateless" children in the Gulf. Bahrain has roughly 2,000. Kuwait: 8,000, and the United Arab Emirates: 14,000. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/09/gulf-gender-citizenship/</link>
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		<title>Research Leads to Rights Breakthrough for Arab Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IDRC Interviews Lina Abou Habib from Lebanon, Wajeeha Al Baharna from Bahrain, and Rakhee Goyal from WLP International on their efforts in the local and international campaigns for equality in citizenship and how research helped lead to achievements in Arab women's rights. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/2009/09/arab-women-right/</link>
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