Lebanese against domestic violence

I hear loud voices coming from Lebanon.. Do you hear it as well? Listen carefully... Righteous voices, angry yet forgiving, loud yet just.

Lebanese are rising above all their differences and standing hand in hand against domestic violence and women abuse.

We wrote a lot about women who died, women who got injured, women who ran away... after they were beaten from their husbands. We said it's an issue of how the parents raise their children and how we live on stereotypes. But today, we are standing still as strong as Lebanese mountains against this injustice and saying NO! ENOUGH!!

Kafa (Enough) is launching this event and Cycling Circle is going to ride against domestic violence. And The Kindness Project team will be there as well. We will be there for Manal, Christelle, Roula and more. We will be there for women's right to live with dignity and equality in our Arab World.

It is not enough anymore to just capture the guy and put him in jail for a year or two then act as if nothing happened. It's not acceptable to let the men who kill their wives run away with it by paying some pennies to the family of the victim. We want more than that. We want a strict law that defends women. We call for a unified civil law and changes in the current personal status law.

Should we remind you who are these women?! These women are your mothers, your sisters, your daughters... Why should they keep silent because they are afraid that the husband will take the custody of their children? When will this change? Don't just stand there and do nothing. We need to raise awareness, we need to act and act NOW! We need a social revolution - I know - but everything in life has a beginning. Let this day be it.

Join us on Saturday March 8, 2014 at 2 p.m. in front of the Lebanese Museum. Let the justice take place.

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By Heidi Shebaro

Founder of "The Kindness Project in the Middle East", a teacher and a blogger