For the occasion of the International Women's Day 2021, Hayat Mirshad was invited to conduct four different awareness raising sessions tackling the issues of women's rights, feminism and the rise of domestic violence and crimes against women and girls. Instagram Live attended by 36 young girls and boys and organized by the Women's movement club [...]
A webinar titled "#IWD2021: Ensuring Women’s Right to Peaceful Assembly" and organized by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the Mesoamerican Initiative of women human rights defenders, and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément N. Voule, where Hayat Mirshad shared as a speaker her experience and [...]
A interview with UN Women including 5 questions! Hayat Mirshad is a 32-year-old Lebanese feminist, human rights activist and gender, communications and advocacy expert. As co-founder of the feminist collective FE-MALE in Lebanon, she advocates against discriminatory gender norms and policies and works closely with UN Women’s Men and Women for Gender Equality programme funded by the Government of Sweden. The programme [...]
Lebanon hit by spate of murders targeting women as authorities say coronavirus lockdowns have doubled domestic violence cases By Timour Azhari and Katy Migiro BEIRUT, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The murder of three women has provoked outrage in Lebanon, as authorities revealed a doubling of domestic abuse reports in a country that recently [...]
In Lebanon, officials and women’s rights groups have reported a dramatic increase in the number of domestic violence cases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions in comparison to previous years. Below is a report for Aljadeed TV about one of the latest crimes against women and girls in the country, where [...]
Hosted by Webster University Geneva in December 2020, Hayat Mirshad was invited as a key panelist in one of the sessions in the Forum on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region: From the Arab Spring to the Post-COVID-19 Future. The conference’s aim was studying the emerging feminist activism in the MENA region and examining new [...]
A wonderful stride for Lebanese women! Lebanese feminist, activist, and journalist Hayat Mirshad has made it to BBC 100 Women for 2020, a carefully-curated list that compiles 100 of the most influential and inspiring women from all over the world every year. In light of her fight for equal rights for young girls and women all over [...]
