Libya’s Migrant Crisis: Legal, Human Rights, and Societal Challenges

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)…

Brief Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Libya 2024

  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…

Libya: 3,500 displaced people from Tawergha remain homeless, without solutions guaranteeing humane housing

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…

International and Arab failure to prevent the annihilation of the Palestinian people must end

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…

Accountability Action Group calls for an independent international inquiry into the catastrophe in Derna and east Libya

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…

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

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 influence of the prevailing value system on laws with a legal philosophy, “A draft law to protect women from violence” as a model

JOINT STATEMENT – Libya: Security chaos and systematic armed intimidation of workforce in judicial facilities further undermines the role of the judiciary in restoring the rule of law and monitoring elections

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 World Refugee Day – Libyan Authorities arbitrarily detain Hundreds of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Inhumane Conditions

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…

Research paper : Freedom of the Press in Libya: A Long Way to Go

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…

Joint Statement: Crimes against migrants and refugees continue in Libya in latest mass expulsion

  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…

The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya – FFM Challenges, achievements and the way forward

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…