Seminar of Human Rights Club at the Lebanese University on criminalizing violence against women

The Human Rights Club at the Lebanese University organised yesterday at Faculty of Law in Saida a seminar on strengthening women’s capacity to advocate for the law to protect women from family violence.  The Club coordinator, Halima Kaakour, presented the reports of the Vienna Human Rights Conference as well as the CEDAW commission on violence against women.  According to Kaakour, violence against women is considered to be the most widespread form of violation of human rights worldwide.  She added that the Lebanese state needs to take real measures to enhance women’s right to education especially in view of the intimate link, according to her, between illiteracy and violence.  She also called for enacting laws which condemn domestic violence and which protect women from this violence especially within the family, and ensure legal, political and economic gender equality.
Source: Al-Akhbar 10 December 2013