Demanding the right to vote and run for elections

Date of Mouvement: 
January 1, 1936 to December 31, 1936

Women capitalised on the Lebanese-French Agreement that stipulated equal civil and political rights to all citizens, and demanded their right to vote and run elections(1)Beyond Reform and Development, “Patriarchy and Sectarianism Gendered Trap: Baseline of Women in Politics – the Case of Lebanon,” 2017, p. 16, available at: https://www.beyondrd.com/assets/publications/Patriarchy%20and%20Sectarianism%20-%20A%20Gendered%20Trap%20-%20Part%20I%20-%20BRD.pdf (last accessed 28 December 2017) .

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