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05 January 2016
Say #IDONT to fight child marriage this Valentine's Day
Syrian refugees in front of the tent where Haneen and her family previously lived in southern Lebanon. © UNFPA/David Brunetti NABATIEH, Lebanon – In…
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11 March 2015
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Brushes and blushes: Livelihood skills help Syrian refugee escape child marriage
When Hiam, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, learned her parents wanted her to marry a complete stranger, she felt helpless. But she saw a way out after hearing of a…
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13 November 2013
A Promising Practice: Empowering Internal Security Forces to Play a Positive Role in Responding to GBV
Since 2012, and in partnership with local NGO, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation, UNFPA Lebanon has embarked on a groundbreaking initiative aiming at filling a gap within the…
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13 November 2013
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A Family Secret
At the end of the discussion, a lady, making sure all the participants had left the room, approached us, shyly. She asked “are you going to talk about violence happening at home?”…
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13 November 2013
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"We Have to Survive"
arly marriage rates grow in times of crisis. The International Rescue Committee’s assessment conducted in August 2012 identified early marriage and survival sex as other forms of…
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13 November 2013
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Haunting Stories
Stories of rape are many among Syrian displaced women in Lebanon. They are often stories that happened to others. Hajji Nazira is 67 years old, she speaks about what she saw in…
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25 June 2013
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UNFPA Launches ICPD Arab Media Contest
In the context of the United Nations review of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD PoA) commonly referred to as ICPD Beyond 2014…
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07 March 2013
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Marital Rape: A Right or a Common Misconception? (by Amine Hamadeh)
The following article won the honorary award in the GBV Article-Writing Contest among Lebanese University Students - Faculty of Journalism and Documentation, organized by the…
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07 March 2013
She Waited for Him Longingly… Then He Raped Her. Will the Law Grant Her Justice? (by Reine Ibrahim)
The following article won the first prize in the GBV Article-Writing Contest among Lebanese University Students - Faculty of Journalism and Documentation, organized by the UNFPA…
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