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

By Amnesty International

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 […] The post Libya: Authorities must drop plans to impose compulsory veiling amid wider crackdown on ‘morality’ grounds appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

Read complete article

~	Women's rights are backsliding left and right in Latin America

~	Preserving the Ch'ol language through theatre and digital media

~	Global: States must negotiate a robust treaty on crimes against humanity after breakthrough resolution

~	Children and amputees bear brunt of Myanmar’s deadly landmine epidemic

~	A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning

~	Dogecoin is a joke − so what’s behind its rally?

~	US House passes measure that could punish nonprofits Treasury Department decides are ‘terrorist’

~	Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world

~	Manchester United: three ways Ruben Amorim can rebuild the club’s identity and get back to winning ways

~	SADC: Denounce Security Force Violence in Mozambique