The Arab Women’s Right to Nationality Campaign organized March for women’s right to transmit nationality to their spouses and children on June 20th to support Lebanese women’s rights to full citizenship. Around 400 activists, and women married to foreigners and their children from different regions in Lebanon participated in the march.
The March took off at the Sanayeh Garden at 11h and moved towards the Ain el Mraisseh Corniche where the Women Mock Court was held by activists from civil society.

Whilst we welcome the nomination of the new cabinet members after a protracted period, the Nationality Campaign and the regional Equality without Reservation Campaign would like to remind the ministerial committee entrusted with the task of writing the Ministerial Declaration of the urgent need to seriously address the issue of citizenship rights and entitlements for women and men.

“My Nationality is a Right for me and My Family” addressed the Minister of Interior and Municipalities Maitre Ziad Baroud with an open letter, appealing for the case of Khaled who is on the risk to be deported.
Khaled, now 21, is born to a Lebanese mother and a Palestinian father registered in Syria. He spent all of his life with his mother in Lebanon. At his coming of age, Khaled turns into a persona non grata in his mother’s homeland.