Libya’s Tripoli-based Minister of Interior in the Government of National Unity (GNU), Emad al-Trabulsi, announced the Libyan government's ongoing plans to implement a “morality police” to monitor public spaces to ensure citizens are acting morally. The 'morality police' will enforce compulsory veiling from the age of nine and older, restrict interactions between men and women, and enforce proper dress and hairstyles. The government also has proposed to force women to seek male permission in order to travel abroad. Amnesty International responded to al-Trabulsi's plan as outright discrimination against women and girls and is concerned on the government's restrictions as a violation of women's rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and right to bodily autonomy.
Compiled from: “Libya: Authorities must drop plans to impose compulsory veiling amid wider crackdown on ‘morality’ grounds”, Amnesty International, Nov. 8, 2024.