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• Women (Libya)

  Libya Liberation Speech Raises Hackles on Polygamy

  28 October 2011, by SOGUEL Dominique

  Libya’s long-awaited declaration of liberation excluded female voices and raised questions about how the tide might turn on matters of family law. The country’s interim leader faced immediate backlash for endorsing a return to unrestricted polygamy.
  (WOMENSENEWS)—The mood couldn’t have been (…)

• Women (Libya)

  Statement on Libya, women’s rights, and ‘sharia law’

  24 October 2011, by WLUML

  Women Living Under Muslim Laws Statement on Libya
  25 October 2011
  WLUML is deeply concerned that the first public act of the Libya’s National Transition Committee has been to proclaim on October 23^rd, 2011, that henceforth, a number of laws will be considered annulled and that ’sharia law’ (…)