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The national alliance to protect children from early marriage
8-12-2017
As part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (LWDG) yesterday launched the National Alliance for the Protection of Children from Early Marriage, in the presence of the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian and the chief of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), Claudine Aoun Rukuz. On the occasion, LWDG president, Leila Mroweh, said the Alliance embraces around 54 institutions and local and international NGOs active in the field of human, children and women’s rights, in addition to the backing of the ministry and NCLW. The alliance is born out of a deep conviction in the rights of women for equality, and in the State as the only entity that ensures the protection and rights of Lebanese citizens, both men and women, and is intended to legitimize the protection of children under 18 years from early marriage, Mroweh stated. She stressed the need to unify all efforts to pressure officials to adopt and apply across the country the law that sets the age of marriage at 18 years. Similarly, Ogassapian maintained that any relevant debate in the Legislature should stem from and relate to cases of girls who experienced and endured the repercussions of underage marriage. Rukuz for her part, lamented the fact that “in Lebanon, which we perceive as a guarantor and guardian of human rights, we still need to form an alliance to prevent early marriage,” as she put it. (Al Mustaqbal, An Nahar, December 8, 2017)
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