{"id":224126,"date":"2026-02-18T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-migrants-and-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:14:19","slug":"libya-migrants-and-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-migrants-and-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Migrants and Refugees in Libya Subjected to &#8216;Systematic&#8217; Abuse &#8211; UN Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya are enduring ruthless and systematic human rights violations, including killings, torture, sexual violence and trafficking, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2026\/02\/migrants-libya-victims-violent-business-model-systemic-violations-and-abuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report<\/a> published today by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Covering the period from January 2024 to December 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/documents\/reports\/business-usual-human-rights-violations-and-abuses-against-migrants-asylum-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> documents what it calls an &#8220;exploitative model preying on migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in situations of heightened vulnerability&#8221;, describing it as a &#8220;brutal and normalised&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya are enduring ruthless and systematic human rights violations, including killings, torture, sexual violence and trafficking, according to a new report published today by the UN human rights office, OHCHR. Covering the period from January 2024 to December 2025, the report documents what it calls an &#8220;exploitative model preying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680795:fcb6396e754590aa8fe8708046facba0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[5099,258,256,4711,892,6928,257,1219,5144,254,8717,25297],"class_list":["post-224126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subjected","tag-systematic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680795:fcb6396e754590aa8fe8708046facba0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}