On the occasion of the International Women’s day NCLW launched a national campaign to protect minor girls from early marriage. In this framework NCLW undertook a socio-legal study on the negative impact of early marriage both on minors and on society entitled “protection of young girls from early marriage: facts and prospects”. This study paved the way to a draft law in an attempt to regulate child marriages in Lebanon since all marriages and family issues are governed by religious laws. Subsequently, NCLW held series of meetings that gathered lawyers specialized in the personal status field and judges from the field of juvenile protection as well as members from the legal committee at NCLW to prepare a draft law in this field.
The draft law was submitted through MP Ghassan Mukheiber to the Parliament and was registered at the Parliament’s secretariat on 29 September 2014 under n° 30/2014. The draft law was transmitted to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee which held, on 14 October 2014, a session with the participation of NCLW and in the presence of a representative of the ministry of Justice and a representative of the Director General of Personal Status. The Human Rights Committee approved the provisions of the amended draft law which was referred to the committee on Administration and justice for further review.
In 2015, and because of the parliamentarian deadlock, NCLW has worked on the field with its partners to raise awareness against child marriage. In this regard a raising awareness session was organized in the training center of Chebaa municipality in cooperation with Abaad.
