New campaign by NCLW and Kafa to fight gender based violence

On the occasion of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, the National Commission for Lebanese Women held yesterday a ceremony at its Baabda training center on ‘The role of education in combating violence’. During the ceremony, which comes as part of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment initiative funded by the European Union, the Secretary of the NCLW, Fadi Karam, stressed the need to eradicate all forms of gender violence as the only way to “realize complete and sustainable community development,” pointing to the essential role of education to this effect. Similarly, Kafa organization, in a statement released yesterday announced that for the 2015 campaign its message is the following “An archaic law is not a serious law”, in allusion to the current patriarchal laws regulating personal status which are obsolete and need to be reformed”. The statement went on to say that the “contribution of women to public life cannot be enhanced as long as women continue to be dominated domestically, or to be sanctioned socially and by law. ((Al Mustaqbal, November 25, 2015)