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UNFPA launches campaign on violence against women in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Office of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in Libya on Tuesday announced a two-week sensitization campaign on violence against women in the country.
An official statement said the 16-day campaign, which began in 1991 at the Centre for Women's Global Leadership of Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, has become an annual global event in which activists urge government leaders, students, academics and the private sector to demand an end to such violence.
A two-day round table held earlier concluded that there are more opportunities than challenges to achieve gender equity despite the exceptional insecurity in the North African country.
Despite being a conservative country, women enjoyed a prominent place under the former regime. Women were emancipated and they participated along with the men in the 17 February 2011 revolution which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
This has made women preserve their central place in the Libyan society by occupying executive positions.
-0- PANA BY/JSG/BBA/MA 4Dec2018
An official statement said the 16-day campaign, which began in 1991 at the Centre for Women's Global Leadership of Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, has become an annual global event in which activists urge government leaders, students, academics and the private sector to demand an end to such violence.
A two-day round table held earlier concluded that there are more opportunities than challenges to achieve gender equity despite the exceptional insecurity in the North African country.
Despite being a conservative country, women enjoyed a prominent place under the former regime. Women were emancipated and they participated along with the men in the 17 February 2011 revolution which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
This has made women preserve their central place in the Libyan society by occupying executive positions.
-0- PANA BY/JSG/BBA/MA 4Dec2018
