Various activities to commemorate International Women’s Day

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, The Say No to Violence organization launched a media awareness campaigns focusing on various forms of daily violence against women.  The Campaign calls on all citizens to wear a “No To Violence Against Women” badge in solidarity with women and to mark their rejection of all forms of discrimination against women.
In its statement, the organization also called on the Lebanese authorities to help in challenging the marginalization of women and redressing the social structure as well as the social relations of gender so as to enable women to take on their role as partners who are equal to men.  The Campaign also urged women to engage in the forthcoming parliamentary elections as women in all parts of Lebanon and so as to consecrate the fundamental principle of equality in politics as well as create a pressure that will encourage the state to reform discriminatory laws.
Within the same vein, and also in commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Notre Dame University is organizing tomorrow a seminar entitled Women in the Public Sphere.  The event will be held at the NDU Campus in Zuk Mosbeh with the participation of Major Suzanne Hajj Hobeiche the head of the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau at the Internal Security Forces, Ms, Suzanne Jabbour representing the Restart association and the Human Resources Manager in the Lebanese Forces, Ms. Nada Nachef.
Source: Al-Nahar, Al-Mustaqbal, Al-Nahar 6 March 2014