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Media awareness on early marriage
28-2-2018
The Parliamentary Administrative and Justice Committee resumed on Monday its study of the draft bills regulating the marriage of underage children and protection of children from early marriages. The committee reviewed the report of the sub-committee charged with finding a compromise between the two proposals, and the viewpoints of the justice ministry, the National Commission for Lebanese women and the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering. However, and due to lack of time, the meeting was adjourned. To note, the Committee has on January 24 decided to merge the three draft legislations, where MP Ghassan Mkheiber pointed out that the final draft will set the minimum age of marriage at 16 years (c.f: http://bit.ly/2HQuaRq). In a related vein, the LWDG held a workshop yesterday devoted to journalists and media representatives on the topic of early marriage in Lebanon, with focus on a number of points: the legal side, the absence of a deterrent legislative system as a result of the absence of civil laws and the different confessional laws fostering the marriage of minors, in addition to standardizing the coverage and handling of similar issues by the media. (Al Akhbar, February 27, 28, 2018)
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