Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Libya, demanding an and to Qaddafi’s regime, which is amongst the most corrupt in the region. The protests were violently dispersed. Excessive force were used to attack and deliberately kill them, evidenced …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Libya | 5 CommentsOn February 15, two days before scheduled “Day of Rage,” protests broke out in Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi. Since then, People have been calling for an end to Gaddafi’s 42-year rule and chanting “the people want the removal of …
Posted in Censorship, Countries/Regions, Democracy, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Libya, Politics | Leave a commentOn December 21st 1988, the Lockerbie bombing attributed to Libya resulted in 270 fatalities, and the world rose up in arms over the outrage. From February 15th 2011 and up to this moment, estimates of the fatalities in Libya have …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Libya | 2 CommentsSince enoughgaddafi.com appears to have been hacked and is momentarily down, here is a list of sites to follow for developments in Libya.
If you’re on Twitter, Follow @EnoughGaddafi & @ShababLibya. [...]
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Libya | 4 CommentsYesterday, protests broke out in Benghazi, the second-largest city in Libya, with hundreds of demonstrators gathering outside the central police station. The protests began after relatives of the 1200 prisoners who were killed in Abu Sleem prison in 1996 took to the streets …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Human Rights, Libya | 1 Comment“Two Nation Theory” may be buzzing in your ears since childhood. Which states that Muslims and Hindus of subcontinent are two totally separate nations from every aspect; therefore Muslims should have a separate homeland in the Muslim majority areas of …
Posted in Countries/Regions, Current Events, General, Libya, Oman, Palestine, USA | Tagged Democracy, M A Jinnah, Pakistan, Politics, Religious State, Secular State | 2 CommentsOver the month of January, we at Migrant-Rights.org have covered cases of abuse against migrant workers in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Qatar, the UAE, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Following our documentation of several cases of suicide and attempted suicide …
Posted in Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Migrant Workers, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | 2 CommentsAccording to Forbes (in 2006), she is the richest woman in the Middle East, with assets totaling $5.5 billion. Today she has found a way to merge business and do-gooding for the planet, setting an example for future environmental philanthropists …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Awareness, Current Events, Democracy, Environment, Israel, Jordan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East | Tagged clean technology, Green Prophet, Israel, ISRAEL21c, Middle East, Shari Arison, water, water scarcity, water security | 2 CommentsAs a Palestinian and an Arab I was extremely proud to see such a large contingent of athletes from the Arab World participating in this year’s Olympics. Even though they are being held in Beijing, one of the most repressive …
Posted in Afghanistan, Algeria, Arabs, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | Tagged Beijing, Olympics | 16 CommentsA while ago, the assistant editor of Destiny, a South African women’s magazine, emailed me asking for help in finding information on successful Libyan women online. Unsurprisingly she had found very little, since what information there is about Libyan women …
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