Rapports

Highlights On 15 June, UNHCR and WFP launched a joint programme to provide emergency food aid to refugees and asylum-seekers living in the urban community in Tripoli. The project aims to scale up to reach 10,000 individuals…

By Jennifer Bose Ratka, OCHA Public Information Officer “I feel much better outside of detention,” says Mohammed,* who recently left a detention centre in Zawiya in north-western Libya after spending three years locked up. “We were beaten…

Concludes Interactive Discussion on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine and Begins High-level Interactive Dialogue on the Human Rights Situation in the Central African Republic The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue on the…

SITUATION UPDATE Since DTM’s last update on displacement from Tarhuna and Sirt on 10 June, an additional 760 displaced families (approximately 3,800 individuals) were identified, bringing the total of internally displaced persons to at least 5,550 families…

Thursday, June 18, 2020 — Libya is facing a crisis within a crisis. Ongoing armed conflict, increasing indiscriminate attacks on civilians and a collapsing healthcare system have been compounded by the arrival of COVID-19 and a…

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. UN SECRETARY-GENERAL DOCUMENTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN BUT FAILS…

Geneva, 18 June 2020 Salle des Assemblées, Palais des Nations Madam President, Excellencies, colleagues and friends, On behalf of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, it is my honour to update you on the situation of human rights in…

GENEVA (17 June 2020) – UN experts* today warned that reliance on foreign actors has contributed to the escalation of the conflict in Libya and undermined prospects for a peaceful resolution, “all at a tragic cost…

The situation in Sirte has remained relatively calm with no renewed reports of armed clashes over the weekend, however reinforcements have been reported on both sides with the possibility of a new escalation. Libya has seen a…

Summary Executions, Torture, Desecration of Corpses (Beirut) – The Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) should urgently investigate evidence that fighters affiliated with it apparently tortured, summarily executed, and desecrated corpses of opposing fighters, Human Rights Watch said…