Since the first days of the revolutionary movement in Benghazi in February 2011, some women became known for their activism. We can mention, for example, the martyr Salwa Bughaighis, Dr. Hana Esseddiq Kallal, Ms. Abeer Amenina, Dr. Laila Bughaighis, etc. However, that women's struggle did not prevent women to be today, within the "Revolutionary process" to be almost absent from the decision-making process and official positions. Women's representation in all governments of the post-Gaddafi era was below five members at best, and in the proposed national Concord government with its forty members, there were two State secretaries only.

Libyan media are still suffering from the setbacks and the implications of the revolution of 17 February, both in terms of the way they are managed, their orientations and objectives which were associated with several diverging issues and the trends of some media institutions to mobilize all their energies in deep partisan, regional and tribal considerations which led to the establishment of confusion and divisions inside society due to its tribal, regional and political diversity.

“It is the utmost insult and failure when your child stays for a year without any identification papers or a registered name in the civil register, because the authorities in Gaddafi’s era preventedus from naming him with an Amazigh name, but requires all names to be exclusively Arab”.Says ShokriNael, an Amazigh citizen and father of the child.

Four years ago, the Libyan revolution, launched in February 2011, had as one of its main demands the freedom of expression; today, press in Libya remains subject to all kind of abuse and violence.

The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) has organised in coordination with the African Centre for the Improvement of Journalists and Communicators (CAPJC), a round table on the theme « Protection of journalists in conflict situation: the Libyan case».