Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya, and at every stage of their journey as they seek to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to a report released Thursday by UNSMIL, the UN Support Mission in Libya. The 61-page report is based on…
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says human traffickers and smugglers in Libya are impersonating their humanitarian aid staff, wearing UNHCR vests and other items to deceive migrants. Citing reliable reports from their sources and refugees, UNHCR said the practice pops up at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points where migrant…
Efe Obada’s dream to play in the National Football League in the United States came true on Saturday. He made the cut for the Carolina Panthers after spending last season on the practice team through the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program, an initiative that launched in 2017. Now the Nigerian-born…
There’s one thing readers and viewers can count on as the year winds down, and that’s a deluge of “Year in Review” stories and posts. The political changes, the celebrity news, the economic issues – media outlets contribute their take on what shaped our days and the shared history of…
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The United States has released its 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which ranks the world’s nations in terms of their efforts in combatting human trafficking, in an effort to hold governments accountable for gaps in protecting the human rights of their citizens and prosecuting violations. Countries are assigned tiered…
Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that the ICC is considering an investigation into human trafficking and other alleged crimes against migrants in Libya. Bensouda, speaking during a UNSC meeting on Monday, said her office continues to gather…
United Nations migration officials said Tuesday that migrants on the North African route hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea are trafficked in what are essentially slave markets in lawless Libya. “Migrants who go to Libya while trying to get to Europe, have no idea of the torture archipelago that awaits…
The numbers are daunting. There are more than 1,000 migrants from The Gambia stranded in Libya, according to the nation’s interior minister. “Many of them want to come home,” says Mai Ahmad Fatty. “They are victims of crime and they have no money, no food, and no proper shelter and…
The news that a provision of United States law requiring companies to report “conflict free minerals” information will be lifted by President Donald Trump’s executive order has been met with dismay by human rights organizations and activists. Yet are the conflict free rules really helping in the Democratic Republic of…