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.

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 ...

BENGHAZI, Libya, July 5 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is part of a UN mission deployed in the eastern Libyan port of Benghazi to assist civilians affected by the conflict. The small UNHCR team ...

The House of Representatives (HoR) concluded the activities of the International Scientific Conference on Digital Violence ...

She had spent the weekend in her Martinsville house, like much of the previous six months, watching television news broadcasts of rebels in her native Libya. By Sunday night, what she felt and saw was ...

The global community must engage the voices of more women to promote peace and prosperity around the world, Alaa Murabit, a United Nations high-level commissioner on health employment and economic ...

CNN is reporting that Iman al-Obeidi, the woman who publicly declared that she'd been gang-raped by 15 Libyan militiamen--and was then hustled away by security forces, and not seen for several ...

Amnesty International this week called for the "quashing" of the convictions of 11 Christians in Libya sentenced to prison under charges that included “insulting Islam.” The trials of the 10 Libyan ...

A Tripoli court on April 15 sentenced the nine Libyan men, one Libyan woman and one Pakistani man to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years on charges of “insulting Islam,” “insulting religious ...