The Campaign against the Lebanese rape-marriage law Article 522, officially known as "A White Dress Doesn't Cover the Rape", was launched by the Lebanese non-governmental organization Abaad MENA in December 2016. Its aim was to abolish Article 522 of the Lebanese Penal Code, which allows a man to avoid punishment for rape if he produces a valid marriage contract with the victim. The campaign included street protests, the hashtag #Undress522 in social media, and a video of a raped women covered in bruises turned into a bride. A month before the launching of the campaign, the NGO executed a country-wide plan to raise awareness on the article, to which only 1% of Lebanese population were discerned of. It is not the first time that Lebanon repeals a law considered to be against human rights. Article 562 of the penal code was amended in 1999, which legalized honor killings whenever a man found his spouse, sister, ascendants or descendants in a situation of unlawful sexual intercourse. Furthermore, on April 1, 2014, the parliament passed a law with the aim to protect women against domestic violence. There are no accurate figures about sexual assaults on women since most women do not report due to the sensitivity of the topic. Within the first few weeks of the campaign, influential figures expressed their support for the movement against Article 522; for example, Prime Minister Saad Hariri did so on his Twitter account. Despite the fact that Lebanon ratified the 1979 United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and other international treaties such as the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the country used to maintain what it has been described as ‘crimes of honor.’ In 2017, Lebanon abolished Article 522 and declared reexamination of Articles 505 and 518. Article 522 of the Lebanese penal code During the Ottoman Empire, Lebanon was a region subject to Ottoman legislation, which was inspired by the French Penal Code of 1810. After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was established in the country. During this period, the Ottoman law continued to be applied until the creation of the Lebanese Penal Code in 1943, which was drawn from the French Penal Code of 1810.