Law on domestic violence in discussion in Parliament today and activists demonstrate in favor of the law without distortion

Today's newspapers include intensive coverage on the law to protect women from domestic violence which is one of the most prominent items on the agenda of today's session which will go on for three days.  Meanwhile, women's rights activists are organising, upon the invitation of Kafa, in downtown Beirut a gathering to demand the full endorsement of the domestic violence bill.  Activists are calling for a discussion of some of the clauses so that they are reinstated in their original version before they were revised by the Parliamentary commission.  Activists are calling for the endorsement of the law as is in its specificity to protect women from family violence.
To be noted that the previous government of PM, Saad Hariri, had initially approved the law with several modifications and referred it to the parliament through decree 4116 dates 28 May 2010.  In an interview with Al Mustakbal newspaper yesterday, Hariri noted that he will do his best so that the law is endorsed (in its previous form) and so as to create a specialised public prosecution and a special detachment of the internal security forces which will have the remit to protect women from family violence.  Future MP, Amman Hurri, also endorsed the present project law and told the Mustaqbal newspaper that the Parliamentary Commissions studied this law in depth ad endorsed it on 27 July 2913 when it met under the presidency of MP Samir al Jisr.  It was then referred to the assembly which meetings were withheld since then.  He added that the Parliamentary Commission introduced some additions to the law at the level of penalties and protection mechanisms and the law is now "comprehensive" and not restricted to violence against women and is comparable to the Council of Europe's official Treaty thus moving Lebanon to become in the same league of countries with advanced legislations(!).
Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Al-Akhbar, The Daily Star 1 April 2014
For more information about the objections of Kafa, please refer to the following link.