TRIPOLI, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- As the first rays of morning light spread across Tripoli's old city, the sound of a wooden loom ...
How did Hala Bugaighis turn personal tragedy into a national movement for women’s rights and economic empowerment in Libya amid war and repression? Hala Bugaighis, a prominent Libyan researcher, women ...
Libya’s national women’s football team is not only struggling on the pitch but also battling a conservative society that frowns on women playing sports in public at all. Female athletes and women’s ...
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced on Tuesday the launch of a three-month training program for ...
A draft law promises stronger protections for women, but political violence, militia dominance and a paralyzed judiciary keep survivors unprotected and embolden attacks on women who speak out. This ...
“I knew how much Qaddafi armed himself, what he could do to people,” says Asma Gargoum, who spied on government troop movements for the rebels in Misrata. Michael Christopher Brown Dalla Abbazi, who ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When inflation began eating into her state-paid salary Libyan architect and assistant professor Seham Saleh started selling drawings over the internet to help pay the bills. She ...
Divorced women often retain custody of their children and ownership of their home, car and other assets; women have freedom to travel alone, and they dominate enrollment in medical and law schools.