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 [...]
A special report during MTV Prime Time News, Bil Roghem Min Kil Shi (English- Despite Everything) segment that highlights remarkable achievements for Lebanon. The report highlighted the inclusion of Hayat Mirshad in BBC’s 100 women list for the most inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020, considering it a remarkable achievement for [...]
Lebanese activist, journalist, and humanitarian Hayat Mirshad has been named among the 100 top influential and inspiring women for 2020 by BBC. Hayat is the co-founder of Fe-Male, a pioneer feminist collective in Lebanon founded in 2012 that fights for a gender equitable society where every woman and girl enjoys her rights and has her [...]
La cofondatrice libanaise du collectif Fe-Male figure sur la liste BBC des 100 femmes les plus inspirantes et influentes du monde pour l’année 2020. OLJ / Par Anne-Marie El-HAGE Elle est féministe jusqu’au bout des ongles. Et le revendique fièrement dans sa vie quotidienne, ses tenues vestimentaires, ses discours enflammés et sans compromis pour la protection [...]
Women from the Middle East and North Africa feature prominently on the BBC’s list of the 100 most influential women of 2020. Among the women from the region celebrated for “leading change and making a difference” are British-Iraqi public health expert Dr Nisreen Alwan and Lebanese human rights activist Hayat Mirshad. The head of the [...]
