{"id":790,"date":"2019-06-18T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/?p=790"},"modified":"2019-06-18T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:22:50","slug":"thousands-marched-with-rdfl-against-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/thousands-marched-with-rdfl-against-child-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Marched with RDFL against Child Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Beirut witnessed on March 2nd, 2019 a massive demonstration organized by the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering &#8211; RDFL and the National Coalition for Protecting Children from Early Marriage with the participation of more than 3000 people and MPs Eddie Abi Lamaa, Paula Yaacoubian, Bilal Al-Abdullah, Elias Hankash, and Faisal Al Sayegh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"850\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsrt5TWowao?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Beirut witnessed on March 2nd, 2019 a massive demonstration organized by the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering &#8211; RDFL and the National Coalition for Protecting Children from Early Marriage with the participation of more than 3000 people and MPs Eddie Abi Lamaa, Paula Yaacoubian, Bilal Al-Abdullah, Elias Hankash, and Faisal Al Sayegh &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"flags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/54731180_2081620598540667_8864398842053787648_o1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa0Zsl-cK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2316,"url":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/rdfl-attends-the-second-session-to-discuss-the-law-criminalizing-child-marriage-in-the-parliamentary-human-rights-committee\/","url_meta":{"origin":790,"position":0},"title":"RDFL attends the second session to discuss the law criminalizing child marriage in the parliamentary Human Rights Committee","date":"July 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"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,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/355331730_640985074722721_6779325882044224183_n.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3370,"url":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/rdfl-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-ending-child-marriage-during-lau-event-cards-against-child-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":790,"position":1},"title":"RDFL Reaffirms Its Commitment to Ending Child Marriage During LAU Event &#8220;Cards Against Child Marriage&#8221;","date":"November 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the ongoing efforts to combat child marriage, lawyer Ghada Nicolas represented the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (RDFL) at the \u201cCards Against Child Marriage\u201d event organized by the Arab Institute for Women (AiW) at the Lebanese American University (LAU). 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