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This report provides a broad summary of the challenges currently facing Libyan women. Jusoor has focused the report on five major areas: structural exclusion from politics and decision-making roles, the impact of arbitrary rule on violations of a woman’s dignity especially through sexual violence, the effect of war on public health maternity centers, the impact of civil war on the Libyan economy as well as the systematic exclusion of women from the labor market and finally, certain challenges faced by women with the international community’s support for development in Libya.

Building an inclusive Economy in Libya Challenges and opportunities

OECD co-operation with the Middle East and North Africa facilitates a greater participation of Arab countries in the work of OECD bodies. Associates participate in OECD bodies, including projects or the development or revision of OECD legal instruments, for an open-ended period, with the same rights and obligations as OECD members. Participants take part in OECD bodies for an open-ended period, except in discussions marked as confidential.

The launch event brought together leading business associations, chambers of commerce and other private sector networks from both MENA and OECD countries to define the specific needs of the region and what successful examples can be applied.

this draft note and elements exchanged at the 2018 edition of the MENA-OECD women's economic empowerment forum (WEEF),as well as additional research ,will guide the preparation of an analytical report on ways to overcome the scacity of gender data and identify the strategic data collection needs of the region , with th view to developing and reinforcing domestic capacity and skills