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Imneina

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2023-06-19
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  1. “They must integrate referendums as a priority into future processes and detain activists only in accordance with legal regulations and procedures. They must integrate parties, if elected, into all future institutions to promote civil values and include women on candidate lists. Finally, they must stress the importance of publicly adopting a policy against impunity, which undermines all efforts to ensure accountability for all those who violated human rights, especially the human rights of active individuals and organizations working in the civil domain. God save Libya.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  2. “They must accelerate the adoption of a law combating violence against women and another law establishing a national council for women in order to address all aspects of women’s empowerment. Likewise, they must adopt a national policy to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and promote the role of women within it. They must eliminate all forms of discrimination related to women and their economic, political and social roles. They must focus on improving educational, economic, social and health conditions of people with disabilities, and work to create an urban environment that is responsive to their rights to movement and work. They must inspire confidence in the successful role of civil society organizations, instead of disseminating hate speech and intimidation.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  3. “A national strategy would bring justice for women who have suffered from war and displacement. Through this statement, civil society is calling on national institutions in Libya to work on several areas. They must structure civil society through the enactment of a law regulating the establishment and work of civil society organizations and preventing any authority from asserting dominance over their activities and rights. They must involve various civil society components, organizations and unions in all United Nations processes to discuss future political arrangements. They must respect women’s participation regarding elected councils by ensuring fair opportunities for women to compete and be appointed to high-level positions.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  4. “Women are also suffering from reluctance on the part of the legislative authority to enact laws combating violence against women and the violations of women’s right to live in safety and dignity in both public and private spaces. Libyan women’s right to marry non-Libyans is being violated and their children from such unions forbidden from obtaining citizenship. Today, as I address the Security Council, which adopted resolution 1325 (2000) to protect women in peace and war, I believe it is important to recall the stigmatization that has affected women activists in civil-society organizations who have called for establishing a national strategy to implement resolution 1325 (2000), as has been done in other sister countries and those that have suffered from the scourge of war.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  5. “Civil society in Libya has fallen victim to enforced disappearances, kidnapping, extrajudicial arrests and accusations of immorality and espionage on behalf of foreign Powers. People have been subject to arrest and torture on the pretext of safeguarding established values. Members of civil society, and women in particular, are suffering from systematic online violence aimed at intimidating and excluding them from participating in the public space. In addition, women in particular are suffering from unjustified measures restricting their movement and encroaching on their privacy by depriving them of the right to travel if they refuse to fill out specific forms explaining the reasons for their travel. That is an arbitrary measure representing the worst forms of discrimination and violations of citizens’ rights and public freedoms.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  6. “With that in mind, I would like to remind members of the reality facing civil society in Libya. We are suffering from the prevailing power of national institutions over the right of people to assembly, association and work under the existing laws, which has not only shrunk the space for civil freedom, as stipulated under the interim constitutional declaration, but has also restricted freedom of expression and movement and the right to belong to any civil- society organization. Civil society, including unions, federations and working organizations, is suffering the consequences of such associations’ exclusion from all the committees deciding the future of Libya and from discussions on a genuine and fair road map to bring about peace.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  7. “Before I go any further, I would like to describe the features of the current situation in Libya. They include the proliferation of weapons, weak and divided governmental institutions and multiple forms of extremism; a political deadlock caused by the repeated postponement of elections, especially parliamentary elections; an unacceptable delay in the holding of a referendum on the draft constitution aimed at ending the transitional stages that have failed to create the stability we desire; unbalanced demographics in southern Libya, owing to a lack of control over the borders in the south and blatant foreign interference violating Libya’s sovereignty; overlapping corruption in the political, governance and security arenas that is obstructing all electoral processes or projects aimed at achieving stability and rejecting the client-State system; and a dominant extremist religious narrative that is opposed to democracy and women’s participation in public policymaking at all levels.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source

  8. “At the outset, I would like to begin my statement by thanking the Security Council for inviting me to this meeting and providing civil society with an opportunity to brief the Council on the human rights situation in Libya from a gender perspective. I am Abeir Imneina, a professor at the University of Benghazi and Head of WASHM Center for Women’s Studies. I am also interested in human rights issues in general and gender issues in particular. I want to address the Council today with a view to emphasizing civil society’s urgent priorities with regard to establishing genuine and sustainable stability in Libya through the creation of an environment that guarantees freedom to work and freedom of expression and contributes to development and reconstruction and strengthening social peace.”

    2023-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9351 (2023) · source