21 January 2020 – Amid widespread protests and a sharply deteriorating economic situation, Hassan Diab is appointed as Prime Minister and forms a 20 Ministers government of which 6 are women: Minister of Labor Lamia Yammine, Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najem, Defense Minister Zeina Akar, Minister of Youth and Sports Vartie Ohanian, Minister of Information Manal […]

31 January 2019 – Four of the thirty ministers appointed to the 2019 Government headed by Saad Hariri were women, among them the first woman to be appointed as Minister of Interior and Municipalities Minister in an Arab League country, Raya El Hassan (Future party), and the first woman to head the Lebanese Ministry of […]

Women’s level of representation at the 2005 parliamentary elections was the highest in the history of modern Lebanon, with 6 women out of 128 parliamentarians being elected – the equivalent of 3%. This figure is higher than the one achieved in the 2009 elections, whereby women’s representation in the Parliament amounted to a total of 1.7%.  […]