108 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.

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