Unequal and unprotected
Subtitle: women's rights under Lebanese personal status law
Contributors: Fakih, Lama, author; Makhlouf, Youmna, author; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Series: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781623132163
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sex discrimination; Women's rights; Legal status, laws; Women
Other titles: Women's rights under Lebanese personal status laws; Lebanon, unequal and unprotected
Notes: " ... written by Nayla Geagea and Lama Fakih, Syria and Lebanon researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division. Youmna Makhlouf contributed to the writing."--Page 115.

"January 2015"--Contents page.

"This 114-page report found that, across all religions, personal status laws erect greater barriers for women than men who wish to terminate unhappy or abusive marriages, initiate divorce proceedings, ensure their rights concerning their children after divorce, or secure pecuniary rights from a former spouse. The laws also violate children's rights, most significantly the need to consider their best interests in all judicial decisions concerning their welfare."--Publisher's website as viewed March 10, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online via the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Summary; title: Recommendations; title: Methodology; title: I. Background: multiple personal status laws; title: II. Religious courts: lack of oversight and inadequate judicial training; title: III. Unequal divorce laws; title: IV. Unequal maternal custody-paternal guardianship; title: V. Women's vulnerable eonomic position, lack of protection from domestic violence; title: VI. International human rights obligationa; title: Acknowledgements.