10 sep 2024 Download : Libya’s Migrant Crisis: Legal, Human Rights, and Societal Challenges The waves of conflict witnessed outside and inside Libya have produced repetitive fluxes of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) over the years (Mneina, 2022). IDPs make up the larger majority of those seeking humanitarian aid in the country. The United […]
Brief Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Libya / Report2024 The international and national failure to address the crisis of widespread human rights violations in Libya has been ongoing for many years. Despite the continued work of the United Nations Mission in Libya, which has been managed by 9 Special Representatives of […]
21/10/2023 Civilians from the city Tawergha, mostly women and children, have been forcibly displaced to Benghazi camps, beginning in 2011. Armed groups affiliated with general command in eastern Libya have forced 3.5 thousand displaced people from Tawergha to evacuate these camps without providing alternatives or other places to shelter, further prolonging their suffering. Since 10 […]
20/10/2023 International and Arab failure to prevent the annihilation of the Palestinian people must end A Joint Statement by 48 Human Rights Organizations from Eight Arab Countries The undersigned Arab human rights organizations call on permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council and member states of the League of Arab States to take […]
26/09/2023 The Defender Center for Human Rights, Libya Crimes Watch (LCW), Tahra organisation and Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) echo the demands of residents of Derna for an impartial, fair and independent investigation into the disastrous collapse of two dams upstream of Derna, which led to the death of thousands of people. The group […]
Joint statement We call for immediate disclosure of the conditions of detainees in Qirnada prisons after Hurricane Daniel and the provision of immediate assistance to the affected September 18, 2023 The Qirnada prison complex, located near the city of Bayda in eastern Libya, was flooded due to Hurricane Daniel on September 10, 2023, according to […]
21/06/2023 Libya, 21 June 2023 – The undersigned organizations condemn the flagrant assault on Ahmed al-Qataani, Public Prosecutor and Director of the Public Order Prosecution Department in the Court of Appeal in the Benghazi Jurisdiction. On Tuesday, 13 June 2023, an armed group kidnapped al-Qataani from his office and detained him in relation to a […]
20/06/2023 Circumstances forced millions of people to leave their original homelands and flee in search of a safe place, to resume their lives anew, and in this perilous journey many of them lose their lives, and many of them are subjected to ill-treatment, humiliation, extortion and sexual violence. June 20 marks World Refugee Day to […]
19/06/2023 An assessment of the state of freedom of the press in Libya, in law and in practice, including perspectives from civil society and media practitioners.By Nadège Lahmar : Human rights researcher and consultant focusing on North Africa. She previously worked as Maghreb Researcher for the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS). She holds […]
9 June 2023 – Libya Crimes Watch (LCW), the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and the Defender Center for Human Rights (CHRDA) strongly condemn the mass expulsion of over 3,000 migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from the Libyan border town of Musaid. On 31 May 2023, disturbing images and videos emerged on social media […]
The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya (FFM) was established by the Human Rights Council on 22 June 2020 to respond to the grave human rights situation in the country. The overthrow of Muammar Gadhafi in 2011 did not halt the systematic violation of human rights that had characterized his regime. Serious violations and abuses […]