Libya: Slow Flood Recovery Failing Displaced Survivors

Amman — Ensure Accountability, Equitable Access to Relief

Libyan authorities are failing to provide adequate compensation and reconstruction support a year after devastating floods wrecked the eastern Libyan city of Derna and left thousands dead or missing, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed groups have yet to face accountability for emergency response failures that prevented people from seeking safety.

The slow recovery and lack of a national response plan is having a severe effect on the…