A Kafa & PSP seminar in Beirut on gender based violence

The Justice Commission at the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) organized in collaboration with Kafa a seminar in the challenges facing law 293 to protect women from family violence. The event was held at the HQ of PSP in Wata al Musaytbeh, last Friday and was attended by Layla Awada and Faten Abou Shacra from Kafa and the president of the Progressive Women Union, Wafa al Abed, participants from the Progressive Youth Organization and lawyers affiliated to the political party. The Justice Commissioner Nash’at Husnieh highlighted during the seminar the importance of the law and the support it receives from the party and its institutions. Laila Awada outlined the journey of the law and the preparations leading to it as well as the various steps undertaken by Kafa to monitor its implementation. She emphasized the importance of the law, the need to develop it and to address its gap.  She also praised the judicial decisions taken in its aftermath. (Al Mustaqbal, 26 April 2015)