Lebanon’s Failed Mother’s Day Gift

Expand A woman walks past a Lebanese flag in Beirut, Lebanon, November 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters This week, Lebanon’s foreign minister, Gebran Bassil, announced he would be submitting a draft law to recognize the right of Lebanese mothers married to non-Lebanese men to equality in passing on their nationality to their children. While this is a right that Lebanese women have waited for nearly a century, the proposed law is discriminatory and fatally flawed. In Lebanon, under a 1925 law, women are not allowed to pass nationality to their children or their spouses, while men can pass nationality…

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