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‘Girls for change’ to empower refugee and host communities
4-4-2018
The ‘Girls for Change’ initiative funded by UNICEF in collaboration with NDU International Film Festival, Canon and Beirut Film Society was launched on March 29 from the Beirut Serail. The project aims at empowering girls within refugee and host communities through the use of audiovisuals. During the launch ceremony, UNICEF representative in Lebanon Tanya Chapuisat pointed out that the UN agency has developed a program for implementation in the coming few years which ensures that girls and women have a healthy and safe life, removes barriers to their advancement, secures their access to education and protects them from violence and discrimination. For his part, the minister of state for refugee affairs Mouin Mer’abi said the project is important because it works to build the human being and society and to achieve development starting from the development of potentials and skills. Likewise, the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian, said the project aims to realize a goal that basically concerns the human being, noting that any approach related to women, legally and to their life, should be based on the human values, justice and democracy. (An Nahar, March 30, 2018)
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