The International Center for Human Justice, Human Action, in partnership with the Educational Technology Syndicate in Lebanon, organized a workshop entitled “Empowering Women with Tools to Protect Against Violence,” as part of the activities of the 16-day campaign to reduce violence against women and on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with the participation of female lawyers. Technology experts, media professionals, academics, psychotherapists, civil associations, and human rights activists, where proposals were discussed in various workshops that dealt with legal, psychological, and digital protection tools for violence against women, leading to several recommendations, including: “Follow up on empowering and training women activists on violence prevention tools in order to Spreading a culture of violence prevention as a proactive step to confront it before being exposed to it.”
The opening begins with the Lebanese national anthem, then a minute of silence in mourning for the victims who fell in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon.
Then the director of the International Center for Human Justice, lawyer Soha Ismail, spoke and gave a speech in which she saluted “the steadfast women in Gaza and southern Lebanon” and pointed out “the increasing cases of violence against women in Lebanon despite all the campaigns against violence against women.” She also saluted and thanked every man who supports The woman is with her, not against her.”
Ismail concluded: “Because women’s rights are human rights, and because there is no excuse for anyone to practice any type of violence against women, whether verbal or physical, our activity today was to provide women with means of protection from violence before it happens to them, because the highest protection for women requires “By providing her with means of protection from violence, not just defending and supporting her when she is exposed to violence.”
Baalbaki
Then the head of the “Educational Technology” Syndicate in Lebanon, Captain Rabie Mustafa Baalbaki, spoke and praised the importance of “addressing important topics, such as the workshop on empowering women with tools to protect against violence integrated with some rights, digitization, and development.”
Sessions
The workshop included 4 training sessions, and the sessions began with lawyer Ziad Muhammad Khaled from the “Beirut Center for Development and Human Rights,” in which he reviewed “legal protection for women from domestic violence” and touched on the law protecting women and other family members from domestic violence with its amendments, indicating its divisions into a punitive section and a protective section. “, indicating “the importance of legislation and its development in terms of criminalizing domestic violence and developing its definition and the importance of criminalizing moral and economic violence,” stressing “the seriousness of the crime of violence within the family as it is committed inside closed rooms, and the importance of women having information and legal means, especially with regard to requesting a protection order, which is considered a temporary measure.” Exempt from fees.”
Khaled concluded: “We stress the necessity of having a unified personal status system that helps develop the law for protection from domestic violence.”
The second session was training on “Self-skills to protect women from violence” by trainer Ziad Munther, an expert in self-development engineering and author of the MixSkills methodology for enhancing Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), who addressed the importance of “the terms and behind them the concepts used in empowering women,” and also touched on “personality types and their role.” In a person’s understanding of himself, which leads to internal change and positive influence on others.”
In the third session, Professor Dr. Jean Daoud, the innovator and founder of the comprehensive approach to play and art therapy, addressed how to “overcome domestic violence according to this approach with representative scenes from the participants to convey the idea in an easy and simple way to take root in the minds, and dialogue and discussion took place about the concepts of that.”
As for the fourth session, it was a joint training session for Captain Baalbaki, the Secretary of the Syndicate, and the General Director of the Lebanese-French Association for Technical Sciences, Noura Al-Merhebi, on “Methods of Prevention from Digital Violence.” It addressed “Types of Digital Violence and How to Prevent Digitally with Practical Steps.” Captain Baalbaki then explained about obstetric artificial intelligence and its dangers in Deep Fake, i.e. generating forged video, audio and image content, how to prevent the publication of biometric fingerprints and understanding digital protection laws.”
The sessions were moderated by the art psychotherapist and human rights activist, lawyer Caroline Hanna, and the legal researcher and human rights activist, lawyer Loay Zaarour.
At the end, certificates were distributed to the participants in the workshop.
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