Opinion: My 2 cents – Gender Equality and Libya’s Economic and Human Development
By Hafed Al-Ghwell. Washington DC, 26 June 2013: The inequality of men and women is an issue that has been the ...
Tag: women
Launch of the Libya Women’s Economic Empowerment Program
By Intissar K. Rajabany. Tripoli, 13 June 2013: In Libya, business support networks for entrepreneurs in general, and for women ...
Congresswomen threaten to boycott Constitution Commission election law vote
By Ahmed Elumami. Women demonstrate outside Congress today demanding 35 percent of seat on the Constitutional Commission (Photo: Ahmed Elumami, Libya Herald,) Tripoli, 28 ...
Libya: seize chance to protect women’s rights – HRW
Tripoli, 27 May 2013: - Historic Time to Entrench Rights through Participation, New Laws and Constitution Libyan authorities should seize ...
Zeidan government refers rape and violence against women draft law to GNC
By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 20 May 2013: At yesterday’s press conference Prime Minister Ali Zeidan revealed that his government had ...
International women gather in Tripoli’s Old Town
By Reem Tombokti. Members of IWiL on the steps of the Andalusia (Photo: IWiL) Tripoli, 17 May 2013: The fourth ...
Benghazi registrar apologises to women protestors
By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab. Tripoli, 7 May 2013: Benghazi’s Public registrar, Yousef Abdurrahim Qarqum, has apologised to women who he said ...
More support for politically-minded Libyan women
By Reem Tombokti. One of the trial training classes in action (Photo: Reem Tombokti) Tripoli, 1 May 2013: A new ...
Government backs Mufti’s call for foreign marriage ban
By Reem Tombokti. An extract from the fatwa, which was circulated on Facebook Tripoli, 14 April 2013: The Ministry of ...
All smiles at the second ‘International Women in Libya’ event
By Nadia El-Ahmar. IWiL at the Radisson Blu's Marrakesh Lounge on Saturday (Photo: Nadia El-Ahmar) Tripoli, 11 March 2103: The second International ...
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