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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, a United Nations investigation said Monday.

The United Nations has warned the European Union is providing support to organizations perpetrating rights abuse in Libya.

The probe voiced alarm at the deteriorating human rights situation in Libya. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.

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...

In-depth: Across Libya, child migrants are being tortured by traffickers to extort their families for money, as more children attempt the perilous journey to Europe in search of a better life.

Tunis, December 18, 2022 – On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Libyan Anti-torture…

A meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration took place in Yerevan on 6 December, CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA.

Libyan authorities combatting illegal migration said the boat embarked from Egypt and overturned off Libya. Officials did not say what caused the shipwreck.

CAIRO— A boat carrying Egyptian migrants capsized off Libya's coast, leaving two people dead and 19 more missing ...