Human Rights Watch has criticized the U.N. Human Rights Council for not insisting on accountability for abuses committed against migrants by EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard.
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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), held talks on Tuesday with Speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh and U.N. Special Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily.
The United Kingdom was “alarmed” by the human rights violation documented in the latest report by the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), calling on Libyan authorities to “put an end to these violations and hold perpetrators to account.”
The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General, Abdoulaye Bathily, will brief the Security Council about Libya on April 18, according to the council’s agenda.
More than 15 million square meters are still contaminated with explosive ordnances across war-torn Libya, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday stressed that his Office will strengthen its work on Libya, where the human rights situation continues to deteriorate amid widespread violence by armed actors, ongoing political deadlock, and deepening curbs on civic space.
The European Union on Tuesday defended its work with migrants in Libya after U.N.-backed investigators accused the 27-nation bloc of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes in the north African country.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, held consultations in Berlin yesterday with the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, on the political and security situation in Libya, in the presence by the German government’s special envoy for the Libyan question, Christian Bock.
The U.N. Envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily, met with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Sunday to discuss with him “ways to end the political stalemate and prepare the country for inclusive national elections in 2023,” according to Bathily.
Investigators from the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya (FFM) expressed on Monday dissatisfaction with the country’s response to human right violations.