Rapports

Geneva - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is preparing to send a special envoy to the Middle East to assess national Red Crescent societies' requirements to cope with the massive social crisis that has…

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…

22 February 2011 - The Security Council and top United Nations officials today urged the Libyan Government to immediately end its violent crackdown on protesters and to meet its responsibility to protect its population. Council members "condemned the violence and use…

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,…

22-02-2011 News Release 11/37 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deeply regrets the loss of life and the injuries that have resulted from the escalating violence in Benghazi and other Libyan cities. The organization calls…

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.…

Johannesburg. 22 February 2011. The situation in Libya is escalating with mass killings of protestors, resulting in the commission of crimes against humanity. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation calls upon the UN Security Council to invoke the principle of…

(New York – 22 February 2011) As the Secretary-General's Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and the responsibility to protect, we are alarmed by the reports of mass violence coming from the Socialist People's Libyan…