Aoun on Women's Day Urges for Unified Personal Status Law
President Michel Aoun said on International Women's Day, Tuesday, that "political sectarianism cannot be abolished and people cannot be unified, unless there is a unified personal status law."
He added that "it is not possible to live in one house with different and unequal rights."
Aoun promised to strive to achieve an equal personal status law and said he was content that a law prohibiting violence against women was issued.
"To change such things, we need a transformation in society, and some would accept this change while others wouldn't," Aoun said.
Our role, he added, is to help achieve this change.
Lebanon currently lacks a civil personal status law. It relies on 15 separate religious-based personal status laws to regulate matters such as marriage, inheritance and child custody.
These religious laws differentiate between genders and evidently between religions.
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Instead of "Urging", aren't you the "President". Why not propose it in cabinet vote on it and sign it into law.
Yet , he’s a first class misogynistic creature. He’d rather give a high position to his idiotic son-in-law because he’s a male (doesnt qualify for a man status) rather than his daughters.