BEIRUT: A number of activists protested in Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut Sunday, urging MPs to approve a draft law that would protect women from domestic violence.
Under a banner reading “Your silence is killing them every day” female activists chanted slogans asking politicians to act and end violence against women.
“I am calling on all politicians and religious figures primarily to protect not only the Lebanese woman but the Lebanese family from all forms of violence,” one of the activists said.
Activists say women’s rights are largely unprotected in Lebanon’s male-friendly legal codes
Civil society groups recently launched a television and billboards campaign across the country urging lawmakers to outlaw domestic violence under the slogan: “I did not die but many others have.”
The protest also urged Speaker Nabih Berri to place the draft law, which was finalized by a parliamentary committee last year, on the Parliament’s agenda to be discussed during a series of sessions scheduled for this week.
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