WOMEN RIGHTS IN LIBANESE EPUBLIC

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2 CMI REPORT NUMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 2017 Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws CMI report number 3, September 2017 Author Dima Dabbous is a Gender Specialist at USAID, Associate Professor of Communication, Phoenicia University and the editor-in-chief of al-raida, Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World ISSN 0805-505X (print) ISSN 1890-503X (PDF) ISBN 978-82-8062-655-4 (print) ISBN 978-82-8062-656-1 (PDF) Cover photo Photo by Peter Feghali, Unsplash Graphic designer Kristin Skeie Antoine, KSA_design www.cmi.no
NUMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 2017 CMI REPORT 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction: Women’s rights in Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 II. Overview of recent legal reforms and women’s rights in Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 III. Judicial pluralism, personal status laws, and discrimination against women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A. Legal pluralism in Lebanese religious courts . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 B. Marriage in Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 C. Divorce in religious courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IV. Amending the Sunni family code: Reforming personal status laws from within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 A. The Sunni campaign to raise the custody age . . . . . . . . . . . 20 B. Importance of the Sunni campaign to raise the custody age. . 22 V. Law no. 293 on domestic violence: Reforming personal status laws from without . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 A. A new civil law to protect women from domestic violence . . . 24 B. A controversial bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 C. Amendments to the draft law on domestic violence . . . . . . . 26 D. Law no. 293 of 2014 and the protection of women from domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 E. Implementing Law no. 293: Reform from without. . . . . . . . 28 VI. Concluding comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Reference List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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