A KAFA campaign sign condemning politicians reads "You didn't vote for us, we won't vote for you"
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The Lebanese parliament passed a draft law on Tuesday on the Protection of Women and Family Members Against Domestic Violence Abuse. This would appear on the surface as a victory for the civil society organizations that advocated and pushed for this law. Yet despite this, members of KAFA, the organization that wrote the draft law, and other activists took to the streets of Downtown Beirut to protest the law’s adoption in its current form. The version KAFA originally drafted was called the Law to Protect Women from Domestic Violence. It was eventually put on the agenda of joint parliamentary committees in 2011. It was intensely examined for over a year before the sub-committees proposed an amended draft law. This law was hugely different from the original draft law. KAFA, believing the changes had weakened the law, proposed a series of amendments. The law that was passed on Tuesday, however, did
