Reports

Joint statement between the Lybian Women’s Platform for Peace and WILPF The situation in Libya reached an important stage, where terrorism is threatening to engulf the country one city at a time and the unspoken humanitarian deterioration…

Tunis, Tunisia: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Dutch Embassy signed cost sharing agreement in support of the efforts to empower women in Libya. According to the Agreement signed today in the Dutch…

Save the Children’s Egypt-Libya-Tunisia Assessment (SCELTA) Crossing an ocean of sand In May 2015, Save the Children International (SCI) conducted a rapid humanitarian needs assessment of children and youth in Libya as well as neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt. As…

Tunis, Tunisia, 20 May 2015: UNDP Libya launched a Comparative Summary of the Two-Phase Baseline Study on Women, Peace and Security. The report was launched on 18 May 2015 in Tunisia and is the first of…

The Libyan authorities must ensure that yesterday’s killing of a leading human rights activist in Benghazi is properly investigated and that those responsible are brought to justice, Amnesty International said. Salwa Bugaighis, a lawyer who played a…

Today, Libya adopted an important decree for the reparation of crimes of sexual violence perpetrated during the war. It establishes a structure tasked with identifing the victims and delivering the benefits they are entitled to. "This…

SC/11315 Security Council 7136th Meeting* (PM) The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until 13 March 2015. Unanimously adopting resolution 2144 (2014), the 15-member body mandated the Mission to support Libya’s…

Libya: Seize Chance to Protect Women’s Rights Historic Time to Entrench Rights through Participation, New Laws and Constitution (Tripoli) – Libyan authorities should seize a historic opportunity to promote and protect women’s rights as the country transitions from…

Jamie Dettmer Libya’s top religious authority, the grand mufti, is stirring up controversy with a call for strict gender segregation in all workplaces, classrooms and government offices. The nation’s human rights groups are warning the mufti’s call, if…

Listen to the News One of the challenges facing Libya as it builds democracy following the fall of the Muammar Qadhafi regime is the reform of the security sector. During the uprising, a number of Libyans took up…