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National campaign against early marriage
24-2-2020
On February 21, Mousawat-Wardah Botros, the League for Lebanese Women’s Rights, FENASOL and Al Najdah Association organized a meeting to promote ‘The National Campaign for the Protection of Women from Violence and Early Marriage’. The event comes as part of ‘Empowering the Lebanese and refugee women in Lebanon to practice their rights to eliminate discrimination and violence against women’ program. The latter to note, is supported by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD), in partnership and collaboration with Social Promotion Foundation (FPS) and the Catalan Agency for Peace (ACP). The project coordinator, Samir Diab, considered early marriage a crime against childhood and humanity, criticizing the confessional personal status laws that foster it. He also touched on the discriminatory nationality law that deprives the Lebanese woman from conferring citizenship to her children. To close, proposals were made to the end of protecting women against discrimination, violence and early marriage, notably the following: mobilizing public opinion to the enactment of a unified personal status law that sets the age of marriage at 18 for females and males equally; continue to raise awareness in the regions on the rights of women and the risks of early marriage on both minors and society at large, and finally, a call for cooperation with municipalities to practice their role in promoting the culture of women’s rights. (NNA, February 21, 2020)
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