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RDFL attends the second session to discuss the law criminalizing child marriage in the parliamentary Human Rights Committee

RDFL July 3, 2023
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RDFL attended today the second session to discuss the law on determining the marriage age and criminalizing the marriage of children in Lebanon in the parliamentary Human Rights Committee chaired by MP Michel Moussa, which was prepared by RDFL with a committee of specialists to protect children from early marriage, in order to develop a framework for progress in the legislative track of the law in light of the tragedy experienced by thousands of married child girls and what others can live in the absence of a law protecting them.

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The Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering is a secular non-governmental women organization which works with the democratic forces and represents a part of the advocacy secular democratic women’s movement, on the basis of international pacts and treaties, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in order to promote women’s status and participation and empower them, aiming at achieving full equality between both sexes.