BEIRUT – A dozen Lebanese women, dressed as brides in white wedding dresses stained with fake blood and bandages, have gathered outside government buildings in Lebanon's capital to protest a law that ...

BEIRUT (Reuters Life!) - Lebanese women in white gowns and men in suits staged a mock wedding in central Beirut's main thoroughfare on Thursday, calling on authorities to pass a law that would ...

BEIRUT Samira Soueidan thought she had won a major battle last year when a judge ruled she could pass on her Lebanese citizenship to her children, a first for women wed to foreigners in this tiny ...

Lebanese artist Mireille Honein took a creative route to protest Article 522 of the country's penal code, which exonerates a rapist if he marries his victim. The law — which is currently in effect — ...

It is a point of frustrated pride among most Lebanese that they’ve learnt to adapt to their nation’s particular brand of instability and mismanagement. The sliver of a state, wedged between Syria, ...

I wonder if my reluctance to set a wedding date stemmed from something deeper: the cultural pressure to have a big do. I’m half-Lebanese and half-Pakistani and, in keeping with the traditions of my ...

(Beirut) – Lebanese authorities are falling short of their international legal obligations to protect women and girls from violence and end discrimination against them, Human Rights Watch said today.