Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering (RDFL)

Established in 1976, RDFL is a secular non-governmental women organization which works with the democratic forces and represents a part of the advocacy secular democratic women’s movement, on the basis of international pacts and treaties, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in order to promote women’s status and participation and empower them, aiming at achieving full equality between both sexes. Also, RDFL is an active and major member that founded and worked within the national coalition to protect women from domestic violence, where it played a major role in campaigning for the ratification of the Law to Protect Women from Domestic Violence. This coalition worked for several years and ended up with law number 293 that protects women from domestic violence. Furthermore, RDFL is part of a number of national and regional networks aiming to challenge different forms of violence against women, mainly: Quota and political participation campaigns and networks, Arab network to change women’s and men’s image in media and ads, Arab Women's Forum (AISHA), campaign of abolition of honor crimes in Lebanon.