Rapports

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…

MILAN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Up to 300,000 migrants from Libya could flee to Italy because of turmoil in the North African nation, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in an interview published on Wednesday. See full article here; http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/italy-sees-300000-fleeing-libya-turmoil-minister/

Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its preparations to support medical facilities and treat the injured in Libyan cities where violence has taken place over the past few days. It is…

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…

23 February 2011 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned Libyan President Muammar Al-Qadhafi's actions against protestors as possible crimes against humanity, calling for the punishment of those who "brutally shed" the blood of innocents. "I have strongly condemned, again and again,…

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…

JERUSALEM, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Israel will allow 300 Palestinians from Libya to enter the Palestinian territories in the coming days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. "Because of the current violence in Libya I received a personal…

Suzanne Presto | Cairo Reports coming out of Libya indicate government-sanctioned violence against protesters is intensifying during a widening revolt. The international community has denounced the violence, while Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has threatened death for anyone who takes up arms…

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…