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The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe.

An amendment was also added to the government’s motion by Social Democrat TD Gary Gannon.

Back in 2011, when the West decided to topple their long-time foe, the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, it needed pretext to intervene militarily in an independent, sovereign and United Nations member, L...

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 largely lawless north African country. Libya is a major departure point for people from northern Africa and elsewhere desperate enough to make the perilous Mediterranean Sea…

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EU funding is facilitating the commission of abuses against migrants in Libya who are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery. The warning came out of a probe by the United Nat...

The report also said that investigators believe the EU and its member countries “directly or indirectly, provided monetary and technical support and equipment, to the Libyan Coast Guard and the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration,” which were used to intercept and detain migrants

"Migr­ants, in particular, have been targeted and there is overwhelming evidence that they have been systematically tortured," report says.

U.N. investigators have accused Libyan state security forces and armed militia groups of committing a wide array of crimes with impunity, many of which could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The three-member U.N. Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya on Monday presented...

New York: UN-appointed independent human rights investigators on Monday said there are grounds to believe that Libyan authorities and armed militia groups have been responsible for “a wide array” of war crimes, and crimes against humanity in recent years.