“Libyan authorities, armed groups, smugglers, and human traffickers should not assume that the eyes of the international community have now left Libya,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said. “It is crucial that we redouble efforts to secure accountability for past violations and continue to monitor the reality on the ground to prevent…
In the case of State security forces, human rights violations were committed to quash dissent and exploit vulnerable migrants, with no justice in sight, according to the latest report, from the Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya. It documents the “widespread practice” of arbitrary detention, murder, torture, rape, enslavement and enforced disappearance in the country. In addition,…
File photo 30 people are missing after a migrant boat capsized near Libya. Foreign media quoted the Italian coast guards as saying that 17 people have been rescued after the incident. According to news agencies, the boat suffered an accident due to bad weather, rescue operation is going on to save human lives. It should…
3 Pakistanis died and one was rescued after the migrant boat sank in Libya; Photo: File Tripoli: After Italy, the total number of dead Pakistanis has increased to 7 as the bodies of 4 more Pakistanis were found in the migrant boat accident in Libya. According to the World News Agency, the boat of migrants…
File photo After Italy, a boat accident has also occurred near the Libyan city of Benghazi. According to the spokesperson of the Foreign Office, there are reports that 3 Pakistanis have died in the accident. The Pakistani embassy in Tripoli is helping to move the bodies to Pakistan. Sources say that there have been separate…
“The political process remains protracted and falls short of the aspirations of Libyans, who seek to elect their leaders and reinvigorate their political institutions,” said Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative for Libya and head of the UN’s political mission in the country, known as UNSMIL. “In short, Libyans are impatient,” he stressed, noting that they are…
“What is urgently needed is the political will to break the protracted political stalemate and achieve progress on multiple fronts,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the latest meeting of the High-level Committee on Libya, taking place in Addis Ababa. Progress is sorely needed towards holding elections and advancing gains in security, national reconciliation and…
Migrant boat, file photo 73 migrants are presumed dead after a boat from Libya to Europe capsized. The UN’s International Organization for Migration says the boat capsized on Tuesday, and Libyan authorities have recovered the bodies of 11 people who drowned. The UN agency said in a statement that the boat was carrying 80 migrants…
The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya was established by the Human Rights Council in June 2020, to investigate alleged abuses of international human rights law and international humanitarian law committed in Libya since 2016. The panel’s latest official visit to Libya which ended on Sunday heard testimony from victims’ relatives of extrajudicial killings, torture,…
