Reports

TRIPOLI, 21 April 2013 – The Libyan Higher Judicial Institute (HJI) and UNICEF have launched a comprehensive capacity building programme for judges, prosecutors, and others involved in the judicial system in Libya, with the aim of…

News • 18 young Libyan girls and boys participated in firstever OneMinutesJr video workshop in Tripoli 23-27 January 2013. • On 28 February the Ministry of Education and UNICEF launched the nation-wide school assessment report in Tripoli. • UNICEF…

Tripoli/Brussels/Washington, 17 April 2013: Unless Libya breaks the cycle of violence and urgently reforms its justice system, there is a real risk of an increase in assassinations, urban violence and communal conflicts. Trial by Error: Justice in…

Executive summary UNHCR’s 2011 emergency operation in North Africa, which followed the outbreak of civil war in Libya, addressed one of the largest mixed migration crises that the organization has ever encountered. The unanticipated emergency generated a…

Refugees and asylum seekers UNHCR has started the registration of refugees and asylum seekers detained in South Libya. In February, authorities transferred over 1,000 foreign nationals including persons in need of international protection to detention centers in…

MIZDAH, 2 April 2013 (IRIN) - Relations between ethnic groups in Libya's northwestern Nafusa Mountains remain tense several weeks after renewed clashes in the town of Mizdah. Around 1,500 families fled their homes in March when heavily…

Humane Treatment, Access to Lawyers, Fair Trials Key (Beirut, March 30, 2013) – Libya should ensure that two Libyans with ties to the previous government of Muammar Gaddafi who were extradited from Egypt on March 26, 2013,…

TRIPOLI, Libya, March 28 (UNHCR) – The one anchor and light in Marian's* hard life was her love for her husband, Hassan. So when the migrant worker went missing in Libya in 2011, she decided to…

Satellite Imagery Analysis Shows Systematic Destruction of Tawergha (Tripoli) – The Libyan government should take urgent steps to stop serious and ongoing human rights violations against inhabitants of the town of Tawergha, who are widely viewed as…

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…