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LCRVAW initiative to tighten legislation against rapists
25-4-2018
The Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LCRVAW) in Tripoli organized a two-day training session (April 19-20) under the title, ‘So that the repeal of Article 522 does not remain ceremonial, together for the amendment of Articles 505 and 519 and the abolishing of Article 518’. This comes as part of ‘protecting women and girls through the elimination of discriminatory articles related to rape in Lebanon’ in collaboration with the international organization Equality Now. The project director, Ghinwa Chandar Hadid, said the workshop completes the first phase of the project to be completed in its later stages with the launch of the advocacy and support campaign to pressure the parliament to ratify the recommendations resulting from the workshop. To wrap up, the workshop tackled the legal provisions noted in the legal, and psycho-social aspects. To this end, lawyer Maysaa Shandar discussed the content of Article 522 that was repealed in August 2017, but whose effects are still observed in Articles 505 and 518. She also pointed out to the rise in the rate of sexual assault and rape incidents in the country, in addition to the forms of punishment applied by world states in this direction. In her turn, psychologist Dr. Mireille Elias talked about the psychological area, focusing on the negative impact of rape, and expounded the phenomenon of the marriage of minors and its repercussions. (Al Diyar, April 25, 2018)
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