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About the newsletter
Why the Gender Equity Newsletter?
This newsletter aims to connect gender actors and practitioners in Lebanon through the exchange expertise, in an attempt to create a space for better collaboration, networking, and equal access to knowledge, research, and information. Each issue will cover the work of actors, their activities, and projects, in addition to recommending relevant resources and tools, as well as information and statistics relevant to gender work in Lebanon.
The gender equity newsletter is a part of the Gender Equity Network – a project by Lebanon Support in partnership with Diakonia
The Gender Equity Network is an online collaborative platform. It is part of Lebanon Support’s Civil Society Knowledge Centre (CSKC) and brings together civil society organizations, researchers, practitioners, and experts to enhance local and national capacities, improve access to knowledge and its development, and provide evidence-based research, information, and literature on gender issues and concerns.
1. Featured resources on the Gender Equity Network - مراجع مختارة على شبكة العدالة الجندرية
Online and interactive version of the Gender Dictionary: traveling concepts and local usages in Lebanon
نسخة إلكترونية وتفاعلية لقاموس الجندر: مفاهيم متنقِّلة واستعمالاتها المحلية في لبنان
By: Lebanon Support
In July 2016, Lebanon Support launched the online and interactive Gender Dictionary which allows users and readers to browse terms easily, in alphabetical order, and displays each definition in both languages, English and Arabic. This makes it a much easier way to read specific definitions without downloading the whole pdf.
Please note that the book’s pdf version has been online since the day of the launch, last February 2016 on the Gender Equity Library within the project's page.
We sincerely hope this new tool provides a user-friendly, easily accessible way to read and use the Gender Dictionary.
Use the online Gender Dictionary here.
New content to be published on the Mapping Centre of the Gender Equity Network
In the continuity of its work with partner organisations on data and information sharing and dissemination, Lebanon Support is working on developing a new mapping featuring quantitative data from organisations’ listening centres. The data from listening centres will be featured in interactive graphs and aims to provide an overview of sexual violence, physical violence, psychological/emotional violence, and economic violence complaints that gender organisations receive regularly.
If you would like to share your data with us, please contact us on contact@lebanon-support.org.
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The Gender Dictionary, first localised bilingual resource of its kind is also available for sale at our office, Librarie Antoine, Dawawine Bookstore, Librairie Du Liban, and Virgin Megastore.
For more info, contact us on: contact@lebanon-support.org
Download the pdf of the Gender Dictionary on this link, and read our open access policy here.
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The Civil Society Review, the first peer-reviewed journal on civil society issues in Lebanon, is for sale at our office, Librairie Antoine, and Virgin Megastore.
For more info, contact us on: contact@lebanon-support.org
A preview is available here.
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2. FOCUS ON
Lebanon Support is launching a new event series in September 2016, titled Gender Afterworks.
Gender Afterworks are an open informal café for discussion, aiming at creating informal spaces for discussion between scholars, experts, practitioners, activists and the general public on themes pertaining to gender in Lebanon. These events will be hosted regularly by Lebanon Support with partner organisations.
The first Gender Afterworks will take place on the 22nd of September 2016, 5:30pm, at the Smallville Hotel’s garden. It is organised in partnership with the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (RDFL) and the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), and will focus on discussing social and economic rights in Lebanon from a gender perspective. The discussion will be led by Manar Zaayter from the RDFL and Ziad Abdel Samad from ANND.
SAVE THE DATE and RSVP by emailing us now as places are limited :contact@lebanon-support.org
3. Gender news
The Discriminatory Public Prosecution made a request on August 22nd to appeal the “unjust” decision for the killer of Manal Assi after slackness on the part of Appellate Public prosecution to appeal, within a month from the date of sentencing, the sentence which was pronounced in July by the Criminal Court and which gave the culprit a mitigated sentence and allowed for a reduced punishment of a 5-year imprisonment against the killer of wife Manal Assi.
The judiciary court denied the release of three men arrested on suspicion of the rape of a minor in Tripoli. The sexual assault case had been reported on July 11th and garnered much coverage.
The body of Turkish trans rights activist, Hande Kader, was found raped and burned on August 12 in Istanbul. In tribute to her activism and in protest against anti-trans violence, the hashtag #HandeKadereSesVer, or give voice to Hande Kader, started trending.
Several French cities and resorts have put in place a ban on burkinis, notably in Cannes. However, the ruling was suspended by French court, and the controversial ban is dividing French government and political landscape.
Professor Sara Ahmed, director of the Centre for Feminist Research at the Goldsmiths University, resigned from her post in August, in protest against the failure to address sexual harassment at the institution. Her announcement, posted on her blog, sparked discussion around the widespread issue of sexual harassment of students by university staff and non-disclosure agreements.
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