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 ...

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 ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities are investigating an incident, captured on video and circulated on Facebook, in which the country's most powerful man was grilled by an unknown questioner about ...

A warning from Monica Minardi, president of the Italian branch of Doctors Without Borders, on how EU and Italian policies ...