3 - Amplifying the Voice of Women with Disabilities

UN Women Lebanon launched its podcast series “UN Women podcasts” amplifying the remarkable voices of women and girls in Lebanon and celebrating their unmatched potential as well as their own gender equality journeys. 

Noelle Tyan, president of the Lebanese Universities League for the Blind (LULB), is the guest of the third episode “Amplifying the voice of women with disabilities”, she explores with Joyce Azzam the multiple discrimination women with disabilities face, the implementation of law No. 220, which secures the basic rights for the disabled in Lebanon, and the recent ratification, at national level, of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).