On March 28, 1949, Ibtihaj Qaddura addressed a crowd of foreign dignitaries about women’s rights in the newly independent state of Lebanon. The occasion of Qaddura’s speech was the Third Session of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) hosted in Beirut. Qaddura and her peers used the attention of the international women’s rights community at the UNSCW meeting to present an alternative vision of women’s rights, an “Eastern” vision. “Eastern” women’s rights were grounded in the family rather than in the individual. “Eastern” was a gendered, regional women’s rights framework that emerged in the early twentieth century and gained wider support in the 1920s and 1930s as Arab women tried to counter Western hegemony in discussions about women’s rights. Despite their efforts, women’s rights were internationalized through the League of Nations as individual rights; the United Nations absorbed this women’s rights framework. This paper draws from research conducted in the UN and League of Nations archives as well as personal family archives in Lebanon. The petition presented at the UNCSW session in Beirut provides a window into Syrian and Lebanese women’s efforts to develop an alternative vision of international women’s rights that merged Eastern and Western notions of women’s rights. Their efforts did not succeed, but the petition reflects the multiple conceptualizations of women’s rights that circulated during the League of Nations era and into the early UN period.