Hayat Mirshad speaking to AFP news agency about the #feminist march in #Beirut which saw thousand #women and #girls head out to join the larger protest in Downtown. This revolution is feminist, the patriarchy is deadly, the fight for LGBT rights, women’s rights, refugee rights, domestic workers rights it’s all one. We’re mad, and we’re here! #LebanonProtests
About the author: Hayat Mirshad is a Lebanese feminist activist. In 2012, she initiated the first-ever feminist radio programme in Lebanon “Sharika wa Laken” (A Partner Not Yet Equal), where she remains as one of the web and content managers. She is a co-founder and co-director at FE-MALE, a non-profit feminist collective, and head of [...]
2020 will be a promising year for women's rights since it marks 25 years on the adoption of Beijing platform for action, 5 years since the Global Goals and 10 years anniversary of UN Women. Hayat Mirshad was part of Generation Equality campaign and Gender Innovation Agora, established by UN Women, along with a number of youth and gender equality advocates from the [...]
Hayat Mirshad in a special interview with journalist Joumana Haddad in her program "Kalimat Hak" on Al Hurra TV, where they discussed women's rights and discrimination in personal status laws in Lebanon mainly when it comes to custody.
You can watch the full episode on MTV website on this link.
Abby Sewell- The Daily Star QSARNABA, Lebanon: Rawda got married when she was a 15-year-old in Homs, years before the Syrian civil war. It was an arranged marriage, and she barely knew her 22-year-old husband-to-be, who was the brother of her sister’s husband.“No one hit me and no one forced me, but no one told me [...]
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You can check the archive of Hayat Mirshad articles and reports produced for Sharika wa Laken feminist online platform on this link.
You can check Hayat Mirshad articles and related news at Annahar Newspaper on this link.
