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Domestic Violence Facts: Lebanon Passes Law

Against Domestic Violence

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Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's parliament on April 1 passed a law making domestic violence a criminal offence.

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It was after a years-long campaign

by civil society groups…

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…in a sectarian Arab country steeped in conservatism.

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The law passed after a Kafa-led campaign which saw thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Beirut on March 8, International Women's Day.

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It came after several women died allegedly from beatings by their

husbands.

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Lebanese women's rights organization Kafa is critical of the law in its current form.

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Kafa's Faten Abu Shakra, who led the campaign said the law "does not specifically focus on women."

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She opposed the introduction "by religious men of

religious language" into the bill, which fails to specifically

refer to marital rape as a crime.


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