Informes

23 February 2011 The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on "The situation of human rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" on Friday, 25 February, starting at 10 a.m. in Room XX of the Palais des Nations in…

Johannesburg. 23 February 2011. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation calls upon African Governments to urgently treat the situation in Libya as a threat to international peace and security. The African Union has failed to condemn the brutal actions of the…

IOM staff at Tunisia's border with Libya report that migrants have begun to cross into Tunisia in efforts to escape the violence in the North African country and to get back to their home countries. Although most of the arrivals…

Brussels, 23 February 2011 6966/11 PRESSE 36 The European Union expresses its grave concern by the situation unfolding in Libya. We strongly condemn the violence and use of force against civilians and deplore the repression against peaceful demonstrators which has resulted in…

Security Council and African Union failing Libyan people Amnesty International has today accused the international community of failing the Libyan people in their hour of greatest need as Colonel Gaddafi threatened to "cleanse Libya house by house". The organization said the response…

GENEVA (22 February 2011) - "Power cannot be sustained by killing people," said Tuesday a group of UN human rights experts*, who warned the Government of Libya that the gross violations of human rights committed in the past few…

Brussels, 22 February 2011: With credible reports of concerted deadly attacks against civilians committed by Libyan security forces, including the use of military aircraft to indiscriminately attack demonstrators, the international community must respond immediately. For members of the world community,…

GENEVA (22 February 2011) - UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday called for immediate cessation of the grave human rights violations committed by Libyan authorities and urged an independent international investigation into the violent suppression of protests…

SC/10180 AFR/2120 The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti ( Brazil): The members of the Security Council were briefed on the situation in Libya by B. Lynn Pascoe, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs,…

Media Contacts: Megan Prock Senior Press Officer mprock [at] phrusa [dot] org Tel: (617) 301-4237 ________________________________________ Physicians for Human Rights urged world powers to convene the U.N. Security Council and the Human Rights Council to protect Libyan civilians from government killings.…