Domestic Violence Facts: Lebanon Passes Law
Against Domestic Violence
Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's parliament on April 1 passed a law making domestic violence a criminal offence.
It was after a years-long campaign
by civil society groups…
…in a sectarian Arab country steeped in conservatism.
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.
It came after several women died allegedly from beatings by their
husbands.
Lebanese women's rights organization Kafa is critical of the law in its current form.
Kafa's Faten Abu Shakra, who led the campaign said the law "does not specifically focus on women."
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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