Libya
Resource type: Treaty body reports
Treaty report category: Maputo Protocol
Thematic areas: Human rights, Inclusiveness and social cohesion, Women's and girls' rights
Countries: Libya
Document language: English
Download PDF

Libya: 5th Periodic Report, 2009-2010

January 2011

This report over the period 2009-2010 "throws light on the people-based human rights system as envisaged in the First Statement of the 1st of September (Fateh) 1969 Revolution, the declared institution of the power of the people in 1977, the Great Green Charter of Human Rights in the Era of the Masses in 1988, and the executing Freedom Promotion Act no. 20/1991, being two underlying documents drawn from the fundamentals of the Third Universal Theory as conspicuously unfolding in political rights, the right to practice direct democracy "the power of the people", the right to employment (right to paid labour) and others."

It contains sections dealing with civil and political rights, economic rights, social and cultural rights, judicial and legal organization, civil society organizations, and the rights of women, children and disabled persons.