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Watch the webcast SC/10574 Security Council 6733rd Meeting (AM) Text Modifies Mission’s Mandate, Looks Forward to June 2012 Elections; Libya Says Mission Critical in Helping Country Move towards Rule of Law, Prosperity The Security Council this morning extended the authorization for the…

AFTERNOON 9 March 2012 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on Libya after its Chairperson presented a report on the situation of human rights in that country. Philippe Kirsch, Chairperson…

To see this news alert with links to the sources click here Libya: New displacements in Kufra as concerns for IDPs remain high One year following the Libyan uprising, IDPs continue to face major protection concerns. At the…

SC/10570 Security Council 6731st Meeting (PM) Backs 12-Month Mandate for Flexible, Responsive, Expert Mission; Libyan Leader Affirms Need for Continued Support, Given ‘Thirst of Libyan People for Democracy’ As post-revolution Libya began to undo its authoritarian past and piece together…

FROM JMACT HEADQUARTERS Operations Overview There are a total of 27 Clearance Teams and 29 Risk Education Teams across the country. Clearance Teams remain concentrated in Sirte and the Zliten/Misrata area. Meanwhile, Risk Education programmes are well spread…

The application of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) norm to Libya in 2011 was successful but controversial. For 350 years since Westphalia, sovereignty functioned as institutionalised indifference. International interventions in Kosovo and East Timor in 1999…

Survivors Describe Fatal Attack (Tripoli, March 5, 2012) – The Libyan government should urgently increase security for the roughly 12,000 displaced people from Tawergha in western Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. Nearly a month after militias…

A DCA technical expert has been killed in an explosion in Libya, while clearing an area of buildings of unexploded remains of recent fighting. “Our thoughts go to the family and friends and the colleagues who were…

Summary In emergency session, the Human Rights Council on 25 February 2011 established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya and gave it the mandate “to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in…

By Rebecca Murray TRIPOLI, Mar 2, 2012 (IPS) - At the battered terminal of Tripoli’s tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya’s Buraq airlines. This journey…