Women bear the brunt of Libyan collapse

Libya’s woes are often described in terms of armed factions, oil, kleptocracy, and the collapse of governance. Yet one of the country’s deepest fractures is not the lost barrels of crude or warring brigades. It is measured in the bodies of women. Libya has, in effect, waged a quiet but devastating war on women, characterized by unchecked killings, the normalization of abuse, and institutions hollowed out to the point where protection is more fiction than function.

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