Rights activists on Sunday afternoon held a march in Beirut on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the National News Agency reported.
The women’s rights advocates started their procession from the UNESCO building in West Beirut and headed down the Corniche al-Mazraa Street before arriving to Beirut’s Hamra area, where they ended their march in-front of the Information Ministry and the nearby Interior Ministry headquarters.
The demonstrators called for a series of reforms, including the implementation of laws to: protect women from domestic violence, allow women to pass on Lebanese nationality, implement a female-representation quota in elected bodies, allow for equality in tax and social security status, and the adoption of civil and economic rights for Palestinian refugees.
Syndicate representatives, former ministers, university professors and other rights activists joined in the march.
Women’s rights activists previously held a march of February 24 from Beirut’s Sanayeh district toward Speaker Nabih Berri’s residence in Ain al-Tineh.
