A trafficking group in Libya has sent videos and images of a young Ethiopian woman being tortured to her family, demanding that they pay $6,000 for her release, an NGO revealed this week.

Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their experiences of being trafficked to Libya, her name has been ...

ALBAWABA - Libyan security authorities have detained a woman accused of shooting her husband to death in Tarhuna, southeast of the capital Tripoli. According to the Tarhuna Security Directorate ...

The question of women’s representation in a democracy that has no arms control has proven to us to be a hypocrisy,' says Libyan women's rights activist. Libyan women's rights activist Zahra ...

and "inappropriate" behavior between women and men in public will also be banned. "Libya is not a place for personal freedoms," Emad Al-Trabelsi, the interior minister of Libya's Tripoli-based ...

She replied: “Since Queen Dihya (the 7th century queen of the northwestern African region known as Numidia) until now, men have not allowed women to effectively participate in Libya’s ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says that Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against her and two government ...

In a single day the social order dictating that Libyan women should defer to men had undergone a jolting tectonic shift. Or had it? Libya has long been a moderate Islamic nation. Qaddafi had ...

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She fled Sudan with her husband and six children early last year in search of safety and is now in Libya. Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their experiences of being ...