{{Expand Swedish, date=November 2022, Lebanese Council of Women
The Lebanese Council of Women or Lebanese Women's Council (LWC) is a women's organization in
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
, founded in 1952. It is an
umbrella organization
An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and iden ...
for the Lebanese women's movement.
In 1946, the
Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union {{Short description, Women's organization in Lebanon and Syria
The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946.
It has also be ...
split in the Lebanese Women's Union and Christian Women's Solidarity Association, who in turn created LWC by merging in 1952. The LWC performed a successful campaign in favor of women's suffrage in Lebanon. During the tour known as The Week of the Women, they visited different parts of the country to gather public support for women's suffrage; and then present the favorable result to the political candidates.Pernille Arenfeldt, Nawar Al-Hassan Golley: Mapping Arab Women's Movements: A Century of Transformations ' The campaign was successful and women's suffrage was introduced in Lebanon in 1953, when three women were elected to the city council of Beirut and Emily Fares Ibrahim became the first woman to be an MP candidate.
The LWC also successfully campaigned for equal inheritance rights for Christian women in 1959, for a woman to keep her citizenship when marrying a foreigner in 1960, and for a married woman to be able to travel without the written approval of her husband in 1974.