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#NotBefore18 Campaign impact
Soon after RDFL launched its campaign, speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri referred a proposed law on the protection of children from early marriage to the Administration and Justice Committee for discussion, after being put in the drawers of the Parliament for more than 7 months. The draft law…
Read More »RDFL’s campaign aiming to set the minimum age of marriage in Lebanon #NotBefore18
The campaign focuses on the health risks of child marriage, which can put the lives of both the child mother and her fetus, in case of pregnancy, at fatal risk. Before the age of 18, the body is still growing, the uterus is still underdeveloped and the pelvis is not…
Read More »We’re Not Alone
The League for Lebanese Women’s Rights – LLWR, a member in the National Coalition for Protecting Children from Child Marriage, has recently launched a national campaign entitled “Do Not Steal My Childhood and My Life by Early Marriage” that aims to raise awareness on this issue and contribute to increase…
Read More »#NotBefore18: Post Elections Campaign
#NotBefore18 was back with an innovative new online campaign following the Lebanese parliamentary elections that took the country by storm – both aesthetically in the form of campaign posters and thoughtfully in the form of the country’s collective conscience. The new campaign focused on the electoral slogan posters that were…
Read More »Welcome to RDFL first newsletter – Word from the president
Welcome to the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL first newsletter, which puts into words the decisive actions that our feminist organisation has taken over the past months to promote the fundamental rights of women and girls in Lebanon. This newsletter will be issued on a quarterly basis to inform you…
Read More »RDFL’s campaign #NotBefore18 nominated to Wajih Ajouz Award
During the ceremony of Wajih Ajouz Award by the Samir Kassir Foundation for the best online campaign from #Lebanon, RDFL’s campaign #NotBefore18, about health risks of child marriage, was selected as the second best campaign, and our partner Abaad organization won the award for the year 2017 for their campaign “إحسبها صح”. #WAA2017
Read More »Berri refers the proposed law on the protection of children from early marriage to the Administration and Justice Committee for discussion
President Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, has referred the proposed law on the protection of children from early marriage, to the Administration and Justice Committee for discussion. It is noteworthy that this step came after the launch of the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL campaign “#NotBefore18” and after…
Read More »Launch of Media Campaign “#NotBefore18”
The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL organized a press conference to launch its national media campaign against child marriage entitled “#NotBefore18”, in the Beirut House of the lawyer in the presence of official and civil public figures including the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs Jean Oghasapian, President of the…
Read More »#NotBefore18campaign is working to end child marriage in Lebanon
There is no minimum age for marriage in Lebanon, where each religious sect has distinct personal status laws governing marriage, divorce, and inheritance. Some of these laws allow girls younger than 15 to get married. According to a 2016 UNICEF report, six percent of women in Lebanon between 20 to 24 of age got…
Read More »RDFL Awareness Raising TVC about Child Marriage Health Risks
Every time you marry off a child, you are putting her under physical, psychological and social pressure she is not ready to handle… Before the age of 18, the body is still growing, the uterus is still underdeveloped and the pelvis is not yet fit to sustain pregnancy. This might…
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