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LEBANON - KAFA - SILENT WITNESS
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Silent Witness - http://www.silentwitness.net \
Within
the framework of the AFKAR II Project, KAFA (enough) Violence &
Exploitation held a conference for the launch of its legal reform campaign
entitled “Towards Protection of Women from Family Violence”, which is funded by
the EU and managed by Omsar, on March 5 at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Hamra,
Beirut between 3 and 5 pm.
The
conference opened with an introduction by KAFA’s Managing Director, Ms. Zoya
Rouhana, followed by addresses from Ms. Youmna Chacar Ghorayeb, representing
the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform and coordinator
of AFKAR Project, and Mr. Jussi Narvi, representing the European Union.
An
interlude followed in which KAFA screened a 30 second TV spot produced on the
subject of domestic violence as an introduction to a short talk given by Dr.
Azza Charara Beydoun on the study she recently completed in collaboration with
KAFA. The study, entitled “Femicide in the Lebanese Courts”, analyzes
discourses within the court system in cases involving the murder of women primarily
in incidents of family violence. It serves to outline some of the main reasons
why this campaign is pushing for the adoption of a law to protect women from
family-based violence. The main points of the proposed law were subsequently
presented by Maitre Leila Awada, a lawyer working with Kafa. Accompanying these
presentations was the Silent Witness exhibition, a series of life-size
silhouettes of women killed in incidents of family violence whose stories were
taken from actual cases in the Lebanese courts and recorded on their
breastplates.
The
conference concluded with the distribution of awards of appreciation to the
committee that oversaw the drafting of the proposed law, composed of their
honors judges John Azzi, Helene Iskandar, Joelle Fawwaz, Comandant Elie
al-Asmar, Maitre Danielle Hoyek, and Maitre Leila Awada.
Lebanon - KAFA - Website - http://www.kafa.org.lb/homepage.html
This project is funded by EU and managed by
OMSAR
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