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(Image courtesy of The Daily Star\/Ahmad Azakir)<\/p>\n
(Image courtesy of The Daily Star\/Ahmad Azakir)<\/p>\n
Just yesterday the National Association for Human Rights organized a protest at Beirut\u2019s Corniche (Ain Al-Mreisse side) \u2013 where hundreds of citizens assembled to protest a Lebanese law which prevents Lebanese women from being able to pass their nationality to family members. <\/p>\n
The protest was deliberately organized to take place the same week that Arab countries celebrate Mother\u2019s Day, to emphasize a national frustration regarding women\u2019s rights in Lebanon. Crowds assembled holding signs inscribed with dissenting statements against a law that originates in 1925 which states that Lebanese women married to foreigners are prohibited from passing their nationality to their children or husbands. Individuals were also spotted with signs that proclaimed, \u201cMy nationality is my dignity\u201d \u2013 the motto of the like-named campaign against the government\u2019s blatant avoidance of amending discriminatory citizenship laws. <\/p>\n
The negative implications of this outdated law are plenty \u2013 but one of the most significant consequences is that children of Lebanese women who are born and raised in Lebanon are deprived of having the rights of Lebanese citizens, such as the right to work and the right to national health coverage. This leads to an issue of collective statelessness for individuals who are born to Lebanese mothers and fathers from countries in crisis who may not have viable passports to provide to their children \u2013 leading to scores of individuals being denied a secure nationality despite the fact that they were born and raised in Lebanon. In these cases, both husbands and children are forced to attain residency permits to live in Lebanon, which are often times a hassle to acquire and which must be perpetually renewed, which serves as an emotional and monetary burden in and of itself. <\/p>\n
The last instance that this law was contested was in 2013, when campaigners proposed a new law that would allow women the right to pass their nationality, but the draft law was unfortunately immediately rejected by the Lebanese Parliament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Image courtesy of The Daily Star\/Ahmad Azakir)<\/p>\n
Just yesterday the National Association for Human Rights organized a protest at Beirut\u2019s Corniche (Ain Al-Mreisse side) \u2013 where hundreds of citizens assembled to protest a Lebanese law which prevents Lebanese women from being able to pass their nationality to family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":409107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[347],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-51147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-trending"],"authorship":[104],"yoast_head":"\n