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International Medical Corps and "Abaad" launched a national media campaign titled "We're ready to listen" with the support of the Arab Institute for equality and freedom. This campaign aims to stop violence against women by involving men in the equation through the creation of the "Men Center", which provides all forms of specialist support to ease the tension and address the factors that would make men lose control, as well as the opportunity to discover healthy alternatives manage their reactions.

Arab Women Spring website http://www.womenspring.org was launched yesterday during a press conference at the headquarters of the National Media Council where Abed Al-Hadi Mahfouz, Councils’ president, indicated the importance of this website for its contribution through media to create and profound a social awareness about women’s rights and the importance of their participation in the sectors that bring the country and the society to life.

Lebanese Forces MP “Shant Janjanian” with-drawled from the subcommittee studying the draft law for protecting women against violence protesting against the mutation of the draft calling to create a new committee that can be trusted to protect women.
 

Siyana Golan, a Bengali domestic worker was found died yesterday in a domestic worker office in Jbeil, apparently she committed suicide.

Laila Al-Solh - Hamade vice president of "Al-Walid Bin Talal humanitarian association opened a library, a computer lab, and a salle for social ceremonies at the municipality of Houmin Al-Fawqa.
 

Lebanese women council is holding today at 4:00 PM the launching and signing ceremony of Dr. Aman Kabbara-Shaarani's book "Lines and chapters-under the umbrella of Lebanese women council" part 2, at the offices of the council.
 

Women and Child Comittee and human rights comittee held a joint meeting at the parlement headed by the president of the women comittee MP Gilbertte Zwein and the president of human rights comittee MP Michel Moussa, where they stated the importance to put solid procedures to stop sexual harrasment through creating a national watch for children rights aiming to deal with the daily violations against children and punishing whoever is responsible.

 

Lebanese women living in Gaza suffer too much troubles visiting Lebanon due to complications in their official papers which makes it hard for them and their children to visit their families in Lebanon. These women do not appear in the official statistics of the ministry of interior due to the fact that they entered Gaza using a Palestinian traveling permit issued from Egypt after the Oslo agreement in 1994.
 

Health, labor and social affairs parliamentary committee has declared yesterday extending the maternity leave from 7 to 20 weeks thus moving the draft law to the parliament general council that will hold a meeting in the end of this month.