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  1. Is being born to a Lebanese woman a crime that one risks to be deported for? #Lebanon #Nationality http://bit.ly/19q14W2:06 PM Nov 6th from twhirl
  2. Mass Summons of #Iran One Million Signatures Campaign Activists to Security Branch of the Revolutionary Courts. http://bit.ly/48EKL72:23 PM Nov 3rd from twhirl
  3. It is the "Age of Stupid" in Women's Rights in #Lebanon: Lina Abou-Habib. http://bit.ly/2J6q5C11:00 AM Nov 2nd from twhirl
  4. Mahnaz: Men took up "women's issues" as their own issues, creating short videos to combat violence against women.3:15 PM Oct 27th from web
  5. Mahnaz: WLP youth tech festival in Jordan for young men & women was a paradigm shift. http://bit.ly/1miX0m3:13 PM Oct 27th from web
  6. Lina: any time our governments want to compromise or "flirt" with conservatives, they first give up women's rights & human rights.3:09 PM Oct 27th from web
  7. As the successful event ends, WLP staff beat. Ready to wrap up and go home. Dinner first however.3:07 PM Oct 27th from web
  8. Q: why are reservations to CEDAW allowed? Asma: If possibility of reservations did not exist, I doubt our countries would have ratified.3:05 PM Oct 27th from web
  9. So many questions from the audience. Difficult to get to them all...3:01 PM Oct 27th from web
  10. #Bahrain, removal of reservations to CEDAW Art 15 (2009) & Royal Decree 35 waiving healthcare fees for non-nat'l families of Bahraini women2:54 PM Oct 27th from web
  11. #Jordan, nat'l labor laws reformed to protect domestic workers, agricultural laborers--mostly women-& to prevent workplace sexual harassment2:49 PM Oct 27th from web
  12. #Jordan, domestic violence law proposed by NGOs and approved by parliament in 2007. Reservation to CEDAW Article 15, para 4 removed in 2009.2:47 PM Oct 27th from web
  13. Legal changes not the only way to measure success. The mass mobilization of people, such as in Iran's One Million Signatures Campaign v imp.2:44 PM Oct 27th from web
  14. Gains: In Morocco after 20 years reform of family law in 2004. Reform of nationality laws in 2007. Land rights for rural women in 2009.2:42 PM Oct 27th from web
  15. Women & the Politics of Change in the Middle East webcast available at: http://www.livestream.com/w...2:35 PM Oct 27th from web
  16. Rabea: ADFM continues to work to remove reservations to CEDAW2:30 PM Oct 27th from web
  17. Coming up, renowned Maghrebian feminist and Moroccan human rights activist Rabea Naciri2:20 PM Oct 27th from web
  18. Asma: political action by women necessary in order to improve women's rights. Today, even Bedouin women standing for elections in Jordan.2:17 PM Oct 27th from web
  19. Asma: CEDAW grants only the minimum rights that should be accorded to women. Yet in reality, even these are not accepted.2:13 PM Oct 27th from web
  20. Asma Khader, general coordinator of SIGI/J and secretary general of the Jordanian National Commission for Women now speaking2:10 PM Oct 27th from web