Libya: Authorities must drop plans to impose compulsory veiling amid wider crackdown on ‘morality’ grounds

Responding to an announcement by Libya’s Tripoli-based Minister of Interior in the Government of National Unity (GNU), Emad al-Trabulsi, of sweeping measures that would further entrench discrimination against women and girls and violate the rights to freedom of expression, religion, belief and bodily autonomy, including plans for “morality police” to enforce compulsory veiling, Bassam Al … Continue reading Libya: Authorities must drop plans to impose compulsory veiling amid wider crackdown on ‘morality’ grounds