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Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) The Libyan economy depends primarily upon revenues from the oil sector, which contribute about 95% of export earnings, about one-quarter of GDP, and 60% of public sector wages. Substantial revenues from the energy sector coupled with a small population give Libya one of the highest per capita GDPs in Africa, but little of this income flows down to the lower orders of society. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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UNICEF – Libya

www.unicef.org/infobycountry/laj.html

[accessed 14 June 2011]

Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61694.htm

[accessed 18 February 2011]

CHILDREN - The government subsidized primary, secondary, and university education, and primary education was compulsory until age 15. According to a 2003 United Nation's Development Plan report, 96 percent of school‑age children attended primary school, and most reached at least a 6th‑grade level. Only 53 percent of girls and 71 percent of boys attended secondary school. The government subsidized medical care, and improved the welfare of children; however, general economic mismanagement led to a low standard in medical services.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003

www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/libyanarabjamahiriya2003.html

[accessed 18 February 2011]

[45] In addition to the de facto age of criminal responsibility of 7 years, which is much too low, the Committee is concerned that:

(b) Status offences are criminalized (i.e. vagrant and street children may be placed in juvenile homes or other institutions);

Libya's HIV children get out to play

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC, 30 October 2003

www.aegis.com/news/ifrc/2003/IF031009.html

[accessed 14 June 2011]

Persuading society to accept children with HIV is a major challenge in Libya. Children with HIV face discrimination on all levels. Colleagues, neighbors, even family members avoid any contact with them.

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