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Libya: Second UPR Cycle – Long Road Awaits Country Toward Improvement of Rights
LBY - News | 14 May 2015
On 13 May 2015, Libya's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This process, which first started in 2008, occurs every four and a half years and aims to assess the human rights record of each United Nations' Member State by the Human Rights Council (HRC). It is thus an ongoing and daily tool to advance human rights. For this 22nd Session, 14 countries, including Libya, are examined. Since its first UPR in November 2010, the country's human rights situation has not only stagnated as reported by Alkarama in September 2014, but strongly deteriorated, in particular due to the civil war that broke out in the context of the wider 'Arab Spring' in 2011.
Libya: Alkarama Calls on State Delegations to Make Appropriate Recommendations Ahead of the State's Upcoming Universal Periodic Review
LBY - News | 14 April 2015
On 10 April 2015, Alkarama briefed representatives from permanent missions in Geneva on its priority recommendations in view of Libya's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which will be held in Geneva on 13 May 2015. Alkarama presented the key issues which need to be urgently addressed by Libya, in particular torture, enforced disappearances, the targeting of civilians by different groups and the inefficiency of the judicial system.
Libya: Civilian Dies as a Result of Torture by General Haftar's Militias in Benghazi
LBY - News | 14 April 2015
On 10 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) concerning the death under torture of Rami Rajab Abdelatti Al Fitouri on 21 March 2015.
Libya: Condemned by the Human Rights Committee Regarding Hmeed Family Case
LBY - News | 23 December 2014
During its 112th session in Geneva from 7 to 31 October 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its decision in the case of Saleh Salem Hmeed and several members of his family, who were arrested, detained and tortured by the security services of Gaddafi's former regime.
Libya: Condemned by UN Human Rights Committee for Enforced Disappearance of Abdelhamid Al Daquel
LBY - News | 22 October 2014
During its 111th session in July 2014, the Human Rights Committee issued an opinion on the case of Abdelhamid Al Daquel, considering that his enforced disappearance in June 1996 was due to a series of violations by Libya of its international obligations. On 5 May 2009, Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) regarding the disappearance of Abdelhamid Al Daquel, whose family had not heard from him since his arrest on 26 January 1989, despite all the steps taken by his father towards the authorities, which were left unanswered.