06 November 2019
Commitment title:
Adopt a participatory approach to develop and ensure a legislative infrastructure for protecting and empowering women, through adopting at least 2 laws and amending decrees
Commitment description:By 2030, a participatory approach will be adopted to develop and ensure a legislative infrastructure for protecting and empowering women, through adopting at least 2 laws and amending decrees (i.e. amending several clauses in the labor law to ensure equal par for women and men; amending clauses in the social security law; and amending the nationality law to provide women the right in passing her nationality to her children)
Modes of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationAdopt a participatory approach to develop and ensure a legislative infrastructure for protecting and empowering women, through adopting at least 2 laws and amending decrees
- Policy and guidanceAdopt a participatory approach to develop and ensure a legislative infrastructure for protecting and empowering women, through adopting at least 2 laws and amending decrees
Commitment to be actioned in:
Lebanon
Submitted from:
Lebanon
Submitted by
National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), Lebanon
Thematic area
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Commitment category
(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
