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Violence Against Women in Lebanon: The Challenge of Legislative Action
Jun 6, 2024In March 2024, Lebanon’s “reform MPs,” a group of legislators who were elected in 2022 from outside the country’s traditional sectarian system, proposed a new …
- Policy Analysis
The Harrowing State of Women’s Rights in Lebanon
May 1, 2023The problems facing women in Lebanon today have been further complicated by the financial, economic, and social crises that have been affecting the country sin…
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Women’s Rights and the Palestinian Authority
Feb 1, 2023The Palestinian Authority is using women's rights to secure political gains, as its main priority has been to use the international diplomatic process to convi…
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Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation in the MENA Region
Jul 1, 2022On June 20, 2022, Egyptian college student Naira Ashraf was beaten and murdered by a man who had harassed and stalked her for years, despite her repeated rejec…
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Arab Women Political Prisoners Jailed by US Middle East Allies
Sep 9, 2021When President Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20th as the 46th president of the United States, America’s friends in particular hoped that his administration…
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Barriers to Women’s Workforce Participation in the Gulf Arab States
Aug 11, 2020Alainna Liloia argues that a societal shift in the Gulf states is needed for greater support to working women so they can make their own personal and professio…
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A New Tunisian Law Tackles Violence Against Women
Sep 12, 2017The new Tunisian law against violence against women sets a new model for the Arab world to emulate and raises the bar in the struggle for women’s rights and ge…
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Human Rights in the Constitution: A Survey of the Arab Uprisings
May 24, 2017When Arab citizens took to the streets in peaceful uprisings throughout 2011, their demands included “freedom,” “justice,” and “dignity.” Their governments rea…
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The Gender Paradox of Arab Democracy
Jun 22, 2016On 17 December 2010, 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi was slapped across the face in front of a crowd and insulted by a munic…
