Militias, armed groups and third states, backing warring parties, committed violations of international humanitarian law, including possible war crimes, with impunity. Fighting in and around the capital, Tripoli, and other cities in western Libya between forces loyal to the Government of National...

The final report of the Fact-Finding Mission is a harrowing read. The Mission found that crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations continue unabated, including arbitrary detention, rape and other forms of torture, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killings...

The climate of impunity in Libya has fuelled horrific crimes by the Tariq Ben Zeyad armed group against thousands of Libyans and migrants since 2016 in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces. Libyan authorities, those in de facto control of territory and the international community...

Amnesty International welcomes the third report of the Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, which found there to be reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity and other crimes under international law have been committed across Libya since 2016 with impunity.

In this brief statement, Nils Muižnieks, Director of Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office, outlines how the case of the El Hiblu 3 is a textbook example of all that is wrong with EU Institutions and Members States’ migration policies in the Central Mediterranean. This statement was...

The postponement of first-ever Libyan presidential elections originally scheduled for 24 December should be used as an opportunity by the internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) and those with de facto control of Libyan territory to urgently address barriers to the exercise of...

Human rights violations and abuses by militias, armed groups and security forces continued unabated in Libya in 2021 in a climate of impunity. Amnesty International documented widespread arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and other unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture and other...

United Nations Human Rights Council member states, including Libya, should continue to support the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya by renewing its mandate during its 48th session, which began on September 13, 2021, seven human rights organizations said today.

Libya has long been unsafe for refugees and migrants. Both state and non-state actors subject them to a catalogue of human rights violations and abuses including unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, indefinite arbitrary detention in cruel and inhuman...

The undersigned Libyan, regional and international human rights organizations strongly urge your government to ensure the renewal of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Libya at the 48th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2021.

Addressing the human rights crisis and re-establishing the rule of law in Libya should be key priorities of the new Government of National Unity (GNU).

Amnesty International acknowledges the challenges facing the Libyan authorities in upholding human rights and welcomes the Libya-led resolution establishing a Fact-Finding Mission on the human rights situation in Libya. However, the scale and gravity of abuses, the lack of accountability, and the...

This document makes recommendations to 10 of the states to be reviewed during the 36th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, 2-13 November 2020: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Mongolia and the United States of America.