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Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Algeria, Burkina Faso, East Timor, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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May 23, 2024, 10:09 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1

"Libyan law criminalized some forms of sex trafficking but did not criminalize labor trafficking. Articles 418, 419, and 420 of the penal code criminalized some forms of sex trafficking involving women and prescribed penalties of up to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine, which were sufficiently stringent and commensurate with penalties prescribed for other serious crimes, such as rape. However, inconsistent with international law, the definition of trafficking within these provisions required transnational movement of the victim and did not criminalize sex trafficking acts that were induced through fraudulent or coercive means. The law did not criminalize sex trafficking involving adult male victims. Article 425 criminalized slavery and prescribed penalties...more
May 9, 2024, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

Is selling sex criminalised? Zina law forbids sexual intercourse between couples who are not married so this criminalises 'prostitution'. It is illegal to sell sex in Libya under article 417(a) of the penal code. Law only applies to women, silent on male sex workers. Is buying sex criminalised? No. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, living on earnings, acting as intermediary and brothel-keeping all criminalised under penal code.
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chad, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

Libya was listed as a "special case" on the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report due to the ongoing political instability amid active war and conflict (85). The absence of a formal government suggests that the country is not doing anything to stop trafficking (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Tunisia, Vanuatu
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Brazil, Honduras, Libya, Morocco
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Fiji, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Libya was 72 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Libya is 34.4% (KMM-CODER COMMENT)..
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Libya is 74 years for women and 70 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Libya is 74.2 years for men and 77.3 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Sept. 29, 2023, 9:40 a.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"16.9 births per 1000 population"
Aug. 30, 2023, 10:48 a.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: IAW-LAW-1, IAD-PRACTICE-1, IAD-LAW-1

"Sharia rules of inheritance apply. Women have a right to inheritance, but in many cases receive less than men. Daughters receive half the share that sons receive" (9). "Libya acceded to the Convention on the Prevention of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1989. Upon accession, the government entered the following reservations to CEDAW: 1. Article 2 shall be implemented with due regard for the peremptory norms of Islamic Sharia relating to determination of the inheritance portions of the estate of a deceased person, whether female or male" (10). "Inheritance is determined by Sharia principles, under which women have the right to inherit, but will generally inherit a...more
Aug. 29, 2023, 5:18 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"The owner of a thing has alone, within the limits of the law, the right to use, to enjoy and to dispose of it. 1. The owner of a thing also owns everything that constitutes an essential element of the thing owned and which cannot be separated therefrom without the thing owned perishing, deteriorating or changing. 2. The ownership of the surface of land includes that which is above and below, as far as it can be usefully enjoyed in height and depth (93), subject to special laws concerning quarries and mines. 3. The ownership of the surface of land may, by law or by agreement, be separated from that...more
June 17, 2023, 5:11 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Central African Rep, Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

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March 9, 2023, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

"An online search using PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases was performed. The snowball method was used to extract other publications. The following keywords were used: Arab/Islamic communities/populations, consanguineous marriage, and consanguinity. Apart from the exception of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of the Islamic World League in 1990, only studies between 2007 and February 2022" (5). Table 2 summarizes important statistics regarding the range of rates of consanguineous and first-cousin marriages in Arabic populations: Libya's overall consanguineous marriage is 48.40% (7).
March 9, 2023, 1:08 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8, MARR-LAW-7

"Indeed, up to the fourth degree of kinship, a cousin has the right to 'reserve' his cousin as his future wife and thus forbid her to marry another man. It is possible to make use of this right from childhood until the day of the marriage of the cousin concerned" (para 24). This suggests consanguineous marriage is legal by law and tradition (VC CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 8, 2022, 11:47 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Brunei, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-5

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Dec. 8, 2022, 11:45 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Central African Rep, Chad, Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Djibouti, East Timor, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: CONST-SCALE-1

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Dec. 8, 2022, 11:44 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Barbados, Brunei, Central African Rep, Chad, Cuba, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
Variables: ATC-SCALE-2

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Dec. 8, 2022, 11:42 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, China, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
Variables: ATC-SCALE-1

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Dec. 8, 2022, 6:04 p.m.
Countries: Barbados, Brunei, Central African Rep, Cuba, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
Variables: ATC-DATA-6

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Nov. 18, 2022, 5:20 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: IAW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), female and male surviving spouses do not have equal rights to inherit assets. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Law on the Protection of Women’s Right to Inheritance No. 6/1959, Art. 1.
Nov. 18, 2022, 5:20 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law does not provide for the valuation of nonmonetary contributions. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Marriage and Divorce Law No. 10/1984, Art. 72(b).
Nov. 18, 2022, 5:20 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: LO-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), The law does not prohibit discrimination in access to credit based on gender. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law allows a woman to sign a contract in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can register a business in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to...more
Nov. 18, 2022, 5:20 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters do not have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Law on Protection of Women’s Right to Inheritance No. 6/1959, Art. 1 .