News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Tunis, Tunisia - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is conducting a two-week course on human rights and refugee law for the Libyan Coastguard and Navy. The training is being held on an Italian ship crossing the Mediterranean Sea. “This training represents an important opportunity to build up the capacity…

IOM has begun to roll out a psychosocial support programme for migrants at detention centres, with the launch of a one-day recreational event at Tripoli’s Abu Salim detention centre. “We do nothing but eat, drink and sleep, the only entertainment we have is talking to each other and that is very…

Libya - On Friday and Saturday (3 - 4 February), four rescue-at-sea operations were conducted, resulting in the rescue of 592 migrants off western Libya. On Friday, 300 migrants (265 men, 30 women and five children—including one new-born) were rescued off Az Zawiyah. The survivors were from Sierra…

Libya - On 2 February, IOM delivered non-food aid to 300 displaced families in Awal, a remote village in Libya’s western mountain range, close to the Algerian and Tunisian borders. The distribution followed an assessment of the community’s needs and included blankets, pillows, mattresses and hygiene…

The Director-General of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Martin Kobler met today in…

Libya - IOM Libya's community stabilization programme, Together We Build, has convened Community Management Committees (CMC) in Sabha and Al Qatrun, southern Libya, to discuss the programme’s achievements and challenges in 2016, and to plan for 2017. During the two two-day meetings (30-31/01 and 06…

From 1 January to 31 January 2017, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 28 civilian casualties, including 16 deaths and 12 injured, during the conduct of hostilities across Libya. Victims included 5 children killed and 3 injured, 10 men killed and 9 injured, and 1 woman…

The Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, reiterates his full support to the Libyan Political Agreement and its institutions and warns Libyan actors against seeking to achieve political gains by force. UNSMIL is…

Six years ago, Libyan women and men courageously embarked on the path of transformation and change. Their revolution toppled a dictatorship that ruled over the country for more than 40 years. Their sacrifices brought much hope for a better future. I salute the people of Libya and admire their…

On 14 and 16 February, IOM organized two charter flights to help two groups totalling 334 migrants to return home to Nigeria and Senegal from Libya. On 14 February, 162 migrants, including 101 women, 43 men and 18 children, returned home to Nigeria on the first flight. A second flight on 16 February…

GENEVA / TUNIS (21 February 2017) – The trial in Libya of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and 36 other members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime represented a major effort by the Libyan judiciary to hold people to account for crimes including grave human rights violations during the 2011 Revolution but…

Libya - On 21 February, IOM helped 172 stranded Nigerian migrants – 110 women, 49 men, seven children and six infants – return home to Nigeria from Tripoli, Libya. The charter flight, which was coordinated with Libyan and Nigerian authorities, departed from Tripoli’s Mitiga airport. IOM also…