Libya: Migrants Face Extreme Violence and Exclusion From Healthcare

In 2024, some 787,000 people who are migrants and refugees were present in Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration. While some of them come in search of work, others try from to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

In Libya, they live in precarious conditions and are subjected to a range of violence and abuse, both inside and outside the country’s detention centres. Abducted, subjected to extortion and trafficking practices, assaulted or sexually abused, their…