{"id":224255,"date":"2026-02-19T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-migrants-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:17:04","slug":"libya-migrants-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-migrants-refugees-in-libya-subjected-to-systematic-abuse-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Migrants, 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=\"18\">It also described it as a &#8220;brutal and normalised reality&#8221; that has become business as usual in Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya are enduring ruthless and systematic human rights violations, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and trafficking, a new UN report has disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The report, published on Tuesday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, covered the period from January 2024 to December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180112.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>It also described it as a &#8220;brutal and normalised reality&#8221; that has become business as usual in Libya. Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya are enduring ruthless and systematic human rights violations, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and trafficking, a new UN report has disclosed. The report, published on Tuesday by the UN human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[5099,258,256,4711,892,6928,257,1219,5144,254,8717,25297],"class_list":["post-224255","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\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224255","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=224255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}