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Part V: Establishment of Non-Governmental Organizations
and Syndicate Action
The right to establish syndicates, trade unions and vocational
associations and to institute civil societies may be regarded as an
action complementary to the role of State institutions in
advancing the community towards building humans as a point of
departure to creativity in the light of freedom and power of the
people.
A human rights' advocate must be aware of the fact that the
Great Jamhirya is one of the states most interested and
respectful of the right to form syndicates and vocational
associations and institute civil societies. For further clarification,
we will present first its efforts vis-à-vis the right to institute civil
societies and second its contribution to the defence of the right
to establish trade unions, syndicates and vocational associations.
First: Right to Institute Civil Societies
Few months after the inception of the Great Fateh Revolution, it
was evidently clear how much the latter is interested in
supporting civil work as embodied in issuing Law no (111) for
1970 on the formation of civil societies. Thirty years after the
issuance of this Law, the legislator saw that a new legislation on
civil action is required to cope with developments in the field of
human rights and consistently with the Declaration on 9/9/1999
and Law no 19/2001 which provided for all parties interested in
voluntary civil action the right to establish institutions for public
affairs and extend social, cultural, sports, charitable,
humanitarian and scientific services and others at the local and
national levels.
The Law confines notarization of civil societies to the following
three government agencies: