The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Turkey is willing to play a mediation role to help reach reconciliation between the Palestinian movements; Fatah and Hamas.
"Divisions should not persist in the current circumstances... I believe we can secure peace" between Hamas and Fatah as long as all parties support peace, he said at a joint news...
Lebanese Members of Parliament have taken the first steps towards amending Lebanon’s nationality law, which states that only Lebanese men may pass their citizenship to their children and their wives.
Parliament established a committee to prepare for possible changes to the law, and prominent politicians spoke on the matter. Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar said that it was...
Lebanese youth and other activists are planning a demonstration in favor of civil marriage in Lebanon on March 18th at the Star Plaza in front of the Lebanese Parliament.
There is currently no civil marriage in Lebanon, where marriage, like divorce and inheritance, is governed by personal status laws that vary for each religious sect. For interfaith couples, that often means that...
Women’s rights activists in Lebanon have taken issue with the way that working mothers are treated—both by Lebanese law and Lebanese bosses.
By law, Lebanese women are allowed to take a maternity leave of 60 days from work. However, this is not always enforced in the private sector, where employers may threaten to fire women who do not come back to work sooner, or be...
Lebanese municipal council elections will take place throughout the month of May.
Municipal elections are held every six years in Lebanon. There have been two rounds of municipal elections, in 1998 and 2004, since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. Before 1998, Lebanon had gone 35 years without municipal elections.
In contrast to Lebanon’s national...
Several Lebanese activists and NGOs are cooperating to launch campaign in support of the rights and dignity of migrant workers during the week preceding Labor Day.
The campaign's title, "24/7", refers to the fact that some migrants who work as domestic servants in Lebanon do not receive any time off, but rather are expected to be available for work 24 hours a day, seven...
In our past discussion on corruption, everyone agreed that corruption is a big problem. Participants also suggested a number of ways that we can fight and limit corruption:
Including ordinary people in leadership positions.
Term limits for government candidacy
Each worker at a certain job takes a turn being the boss
Boycott companies...
In my opinion, the weakness of democratic mechanisms and mechanisms of accountability – both on an institutional level and an individual level—is one of the most important of the many political factors that lead to the spread of corruption.
Hence, we see cases in which the state is in the grip of powerful elites who enjoy a freedom of action and breadth of influence...
The Lebanese Parliament continues to debate a proposal to lower Lebanon’s minimum voting age from 21 to 18 at the urging of Speaker of the House Nabih Berri, reported The Daily Star.
Parliament had previously approved a reduction in the voting age in March 2009, but a constitutional amendment is necessary to put it into effect. Now Lebanon reported that such an amendment...
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