Founder, DoubleX; Co-Founder, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation; Vice-President, Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution International (CAP)
Ghada Jabbour
A feminist activist, Ghada Jabbour is Founder of DoubleX, Co-Founder of KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation, and Vice-President of CAP International. KAFA, a Lebanese advocacy organization, is engaged in fighting violence against women, including sexual exploitation, prostitution, trafficking, and forced domestic work. As the leader of KAFA’s anti-trafficking and sexual exploitation work, Ms. Jabbour reaches out to law enforcement authorities and civil society actors to advocate for the Equality Model, an anti-trafficking legal framework that decriminalizes individuals who are prostituted while criminalizing sex buyers, pimps, and traffickers. KAFA also supports services including shelter, hotline, legal, social, and psychosocial assistance for sexually exploited and trafficked victims. Through DoubleX, Ms. Jabbour continues to fight sexual exploitation in Lebanon and the Arab world. As Vice President of CAP International, she helps oversee its operations across 29 countries, where it advocates for legislation that targets the demand for sex work while supporting victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
“Prostitution is an extreme manifestation of patriarchy. No society can claim to be gender equal if half of it can potentially buy the other half.”
