Lebanon: Andrea Calvo y Tess Dougall

LEBANON
LEBANON
Andrea Calvo y
Tess Dougall
Index
 1. Geographical location , capital and major cities
 2. Demography: population, ethnic groups , religions
etc
 3. Politics: type of government , policies
 4. Customs and traditions
 5. Present situation: war?, famine?, poverty? Etc
 6. What is ECOSOC and what projects, or work do they
do in your country.
 7. Relate your country with topic:Gender violence,
gender wage gap, women in education.
 8. What is your country doing to improve the situation?
 9. Webs and sources used
Geographical location
 Lebanon is located in Western Asia. It borders with
Israel to the south and Syria to the north. Its capital is
Beirut (nearly 2 million inhabitants), Zhale, Tripoli
and Sidon are other major cities. It has a moderate
mediterranean climate.
Demography
 The population of Lebanon is of 6 million
inhabitants.
 The ethnic groups include numerous Islam and
Christian groups
 The major languaje is arabic.
Politics
●
Lebanon is a semipresidential parliamentary
democratic republic. Religion is very connected
to politics, the president has to be a Maronite
Christian. Michel Aoun is the actual president
and Saad Hariri is the prime minister.
●
Some of the policies are:
The labour code which consists on maternity
protetion
Law organizing marketing of child feeding products
and tools that is meant to provide healthy and safe food
to young children by protecting, promoting and
supporting breast feeding.
The MOHP strategy plan consists on improving:
public health, reducing child and maternity mortality.
Customs and
traditions
 Traditional clothes (country side): women wear
traditional colourful skirts and men wear a
traditional sherrwal (baggy trousers).
● The traditional Lebanese dish is siyyadiyeh which
consists on fish cooked in saffron, rice with onions,
sumac and tahini sauce and its served with the
national drink arak, an aniseflavoured liqueur.
 The Muslim holidays in
Lebanon are based on the
Islamic lunar calendar, one of
them is Eid alFtr is a three
day feast at the end of
Ramadan month.
 The National holidays are:
Workers Day
Martyrs Day
Independence Day
Christmas, which is
celebrated the 25th of
December.

Present situation
The Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915-1918) was caused by the
World War I it was a period of starvation and 200,000 people died.
Now there isn´t any war or famine, so Lebanon´s biggest concern is to

host palestinian refugees.
ECOSOC
 ECOSOC stands for Economic and Social Council
which consists on coordinating the economic,
social and related work of the United Nations.
It promotes:
Higher standars of living
Full employment
Economic and social progress
Universal respect for human rights
Fundamental freedoms
 There are almost one and a half million
disadvantege children in Lebanon. ECOSOC is
helping Lebanon by:
Giving financial help with a budget of 123
million dollars for resources.
Providing shelter
Education
 It is also working on the Elimination of All Forms
of Descrimination against women.
General situation of
women
The violence against women is an issue in Lebanon.
A survey in 2016 reported that:

31% of women experienced intimate partner
violence.
1 in 4 women report sexual assaults every month.
Wage gap
●
Men earn 16% more
than women
●
It is more difficult for
women to get
promoted.
●
Lebanon is placed 76
out of 146 other
countries on the Global
Inequality Index.
Women in rural areas
●
The lebanese rural women put up with all the
household activities (cleaning, laundering
cooking, child caring)
●
The main activity of women is in the
agricultural sector and education.
●
Women have also confirmed that they need
training on financial
Women in education
 53% of women over 25 have secondary education.
 Lebanon spends 5.7% in education.
●
Personal opinion
I think there are many solutions for helping
women and improving the education in our
country.
●
For example:
●
Creating new laws that protect women from all
sorts of descrimination.
●
Promoting education.
 These solutions aren´t easy and its going to take
time to change our society and how people think
about certain subjects. To do that we need to
create new programs like forbidding children to
work so they can atend to school or doing courses
for women about financial and banks so they can
learn how to manage their money.

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