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National campaign to counter sexual harassment, Ogassapian for full gender equality
29-11-2018
The Office of the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs re-launched in collaboration with AUB’s KIP project the national campaign entitled “Mish Bassita’. This was held during an event last Monday celebrating the kickoff of this year’s 16-days campaign against violence against women. The event seeks to highlight the various forms of sexual harassment in society and which exemplify violence against women. The campaign also calls for the adoption of a law to criminalise sexual harassment as per the decision of the Cabinet on March 8th 2017 and which was referred to the House for endorsement (c.f.: goo.gl/fKMVJT). In addition, the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs, Jean Ogassapian, noted in an interview with An Nahar that his Ministry is following up the pioneering work of women NGOs in order to achieve gender equality. Ogassapian reiterated that the issues of gender, equality and GBV have become more on the table since the establishment of the Ministry as these issues are now debated widely and for the first time in the Cabinet which resulted in the referral of law to the Parliament. Ogassapian noted that “we need more work to reach gender equality”. (An Nahar, November 29th 2018)
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