The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday commended the release of 64 refugees from a detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
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SOS Mediterranee rescue organization said it rescued on Monday 19 migrants, including 2 women and 3 unaccompanied minors, in international waters of the Mediterranean inside the Libyan SAR region.
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Amnesty International Monday released a statement condemning the European Union’s cooperation with Libyan authorities to intercept refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. According to Amnesty, “migrants and refugees both in and outside of detention in Libya are systematically subjected to a litany of abuses by militias, armed groups and security forces with impunity.”
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that more than 600 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week.
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A confidential European Union military report calls for continuing a controversial EU program to train and equip Libya’s coast guard and navy despite growing concerns about their treatment of migrants, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
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The Libyan Foreign Ministry on Sunday announced opening a reception center to house migrants in capital Tripoli specifically for women and children.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, rescued 109 people on a boat off the Libyan coast on Thursday morning, the organization announced.
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A new lawsuit filed before the International Criminal Court (ICC) would implicates the Libyan authorities in crimes against humanity over systematic abuse of migrants, while also holding italy and Malta accountable as alleged accomplices, Italian newspaper Avvenire reports.
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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush visited on Saturday a migrants’ reception center in Tripoli along with Mohammed Al-Khoja, a militia leader who was recently appointed to head the Department for Combating Irregular Migration (DCIM) despite being accused of abuse against migrants.
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More than 32,000 people were intercepted and returned to Libya last year, revealed the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in a report released on Friday.
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