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Part VI: Interest in Society Brackets
The Great Jamhirya, ever since the inception of the glorious Al
Fateh Revolution in 1969, was persistently interested in all
segments of the society without discrimination. Below are
efforts made on the part of the Jamhirya within the framework
of promoting rights of some of the vulnerable categories
including women, children and people with special needs.
First: Women Rights
In the light of the Revolution, Libyan women have been
particularly cared for. The Libyan legislator issued many laws
concerned with women and developed interest in them, stressing
that most Libyan codes were enacted to determine all the rights
to be enjoyed by the individual in the society without
discrimination between men and women. Some of these laws
referred to the citizen without defining his gender alongside
other laws that addressed their discourse to women in particular
to regulate some of their affairs.
Laws have been issued consecutively since the inception of the
Great Al Fateh Revolution starting with the Constitutional
Declaration in 1969 that emphatically underlined that "all
Libyan citizens are equal before the Law". The Declaration on
the Power of the People, the Great Green Human Rights Charter
in the Era of the Masses and the Freedom Promotion Act have
all confirmed the right to exercise power for all individuals in
the society without discrimination. These instruments also
underpinned the principle of equality among sons of the mass
society, men and women, regarding all that is humane. As for
the Document governing Women Rights and Obligations in the
Mass Society for 1997, its has corroborated guaranteed equal
rights for men and women in the exercise of power as well as in
regard of other social rights relating to marriage, divorce,
motherhood, child custody, labor and social security.