{"id":89604,"date":"2018-03-05T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7e117e814f7b5d3ee0d4c9e0972c0393"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:57:59","slug":"press-release-shorter-hopes-for-a-symbolic-year-for-women-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89604","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Shorter hopes for a symbolic year for women in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugo Shorter met with the leader of the Lebanese Forces Party Samir Geagea.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting Ambassador Shorter said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I had a good meeting today with the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea. Our discussions covered a range of issues including the upcoming parliamentary elections in May. I am hopeful that the Lebanese Forces are considering positively the inclusion of more female candidates on electoral lists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It is a symbolic year for women in the UK with the celebration of 100 years of women suffrage.  I hope it will be a symbolic year for women in Lebanon, with the elections representing an important opportunity to boost inclusion and representation of women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter meets Geagea hopes it will be a symbolic year for women in Lebanon in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}