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Demonstrators gather for International Women’s Day
Date of incident:
March 4, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Lebanese Civilians
BEIRUT: Demonstrators gathered in Ashrafieh’s Sassine Square to march for International Women’s Day. An estimated 1,000 protesters carried signs highlighting women’s issues in Lebanon.
“Marital rape is a crime,” one banner read. “We want women’s representation in Parliament that is not from the patriarchal, sectarian political parties,” another said.
Organized by several women’s rights groups, including Sawt al-Niswa, Fe-Male, the Dammeh Feminist Collective and the American University of Beirut’s Feminist Club, protesters marched under the slogan: “Different causes, same struggle.”
Foreign women, including migrant domestic workers, also participated.
Primary category:
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Classification of conflict (primary):
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Conflicts of social discrimination
Violent and unjust treatment of different categories of people and individuals based on race, age, gender or sexuality, committed by the State, groups and individuals, related to a lack of protection and rights, inefficiency of the Justice system and persisting social and economic vulnerabilities.
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