On 13 November, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi’s vows to impose wide-ranging ‘morality’ measures and restrictions targeting women and girls in western Libya. According to the report, such measures would violate Libya’s interim constitution and several international human rights treaties, as well as ‘other rights including privacy, bodily autonomy, freedom of expression and of association’. HRW said the government should not tolerate any measures that would violate the fundamental rights of women, urging the authorities to ‘uphold their obligation to respect and protect the human rights and dignity of everyone in Libya’.
Read the full report here.