CHRDA & 37 NGOs : Palestine: ­Israeli Apartheid – The Legacy of the Ong­­­­oing Nakba at 75

May 15, 2023 Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic).…

JOINT PRESS RELEASE – ICC arrest warrants: An encouraging step for justice in Libya

JOINT PRESS RELEASE - 18/05/2023 Libya Crimes Watch (LCW), Defender Center for Human Rights (CHRDA), and Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) welcome the recent announcement of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC or the…

Violating women’s right to freedom of movement is an insult to Libyan women and a contravention of the constitution and law

  Statement on discriminatory measures restricting women's travel in Libya 13 May 2023: We, the undersigned activists and civil society organizations, express our strong condemnation of the discriminatory measures imposed by the Internal Security…

Joint statement : UN rights body fails to further justice in Libya

13 April 2023 UN rights body fails to further justice in Libya “Civil society organisations dismayed by inadequate Human Rights Council Libya resolution despite worsening situation” On 4 April, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted…

Joint statement : Libyan organizations call on authorities to stop draconian laws and civil society crackdown

On 13 March 2023 the Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at the Office of the Prime Minister for the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Libya issued circular no. 5803 effectively instructing Libya’s…

Human rights organisations warn of the deteriorating situation of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya and the worrying shrinking civic space

We, activists and members of civil society organisations working on ongoing human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya, express our deep concern regarding the general climate of impunity and lack of accountability…

Joint Letter : UN Human Rights Council should ensure meaningful follow-up on the human rights situation in Libya (CHRDA & 8 NGOs )

6 March 2023 UN Human Rights Council should ensure meaningful follow-up on the human rights situation in Libya Your Excellency, In July 2022 the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted resolution 50/23 extending the mandate of the United…

Press release : The Libyan authorities should release the Executive Director and Director of the Registration Department of the Civil Society Commission in Benghazi

  Press release December 26, 2022   The undersigned Libyan human rights organizations express their strong condemnation and concern over the detention by the Internal Security Agency, on December 18, of the Executive Director of the Civil…

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights must condemn atrocities committed against migrants in Libya 

The undersigned human rights organizations deeply regret the lack of spaces for communication, including participation and expression of opinions, between Libyan civil society and human rights organizations and the African Commission on Human…

Libya: European Parliament issues a new resolution on European policy toward Libya

November 23, 2022 The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the organizations of the Libyan Platform Coalition welcome the results of the vote on the European Parliament’s Recommendation on Libya, which was approved today,…

Joint Open Letter: Human rights organizations call for renewal of UN Fact-Finding Mission on Libya

The undersigned organizations call on member and observer States of the UN Human Rights Council to support the renewal of the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) mandate on Libya, as a matter of urgency, at the upcoming 50th session of the UN Human…

Libyan human rights organizations condemn the forced eviction of Tawerghans and call on the Libyan authorities for a permanent solution

Libyan human rights organizations condemn the forced eviction of Tawerghans and call on the Libyan authorities for a permanent solution that ends their suffering and includes reparation and accountability for the violations committed against…