Libye. L’enfer sur terre pour les migrants
Repêchés in extremis en plein milieu de la Méditerranée par une équipe de sauvetage en mer, des migrants subsahariens racontent les violences qu’ils ont subies lors de leur séjour sur le sol libyen.
L’inferno dei migranti: cosa succede ai rifugiati in Libia
Quando le porte del deserto libico si aprono, si attraversa una linea invisibile nel Sahara. La sabbia del Niger sfuma nella sabbia della Libia, oltre una frontiera tanto arbitraria quanto invisibile agli occhi dei migranti stipati nei cassoni dei pick up 4×4. Il viaggio è stato duro ma nulla sarà duro come quello che li attende. Perché la Libia è l’inferno dei migranti.
▻https://thebottomup.it/2016/09/20/linferno-dei-migranti-cosa-succede-ai-rifugiati-in-libia
Libya’s Migrant Economy Is a Modern Day Slave Market
For migrants from sub-Sahran Africa, Libya was a destination even before Muammar Qaddafi fell in 2011, and the country turned itself in a boat launch to Europe. The dictator fancied himself as a munificent overseer of the continent below. When liberation struggles were underway against colonial masters, Qaddafi sent guns and money, and when the newly independent nations set out to organize themselves as a bloc, he not only helped fund the African Union, but proposed an even more ambitious configuration, The United States of Africa. It never went anywhere, not least because the dictator was, of course, more Arab than African. (The north African expanse of the Mahgreb, which includes Libya, is part of Africa on the maps, but separated from the sub-Saharan African region where migrants hail from by both desert and culture.)
▻http://time.com/4538445/libyas-migrant-economy-is-a-modern-day-slave-market/?xid=tcoshare
#travail #exploitation #néo-esclavage #esclavage
Desperate journeys: Rescued at sea, refugees detail abuse in Libya
Libya is one of the countries that has not signed the convention. The concern is, that leaves refugees even more at risk.
German report details Libya abuses amid pressure to stem migrant flows
Embassy in Niger verifies reports of rights abuses including executions in camps as Italy demands action to halt crossings
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/german-report-libya-abuses-pressure-migrant-flows
GRAND FORMAT. Dans l’enfer du #trafic_d'êtres_humains en Libye
Alors que la question migratoire est au cœur des discussions du sommet européen qui s’ouvre ce samedi à Malte, les yeux se tournent vers la Libye d’où partent la plupart des candidats à l’exil traversant la Méditerranée. L’occasion de re-découvrir l’enquête exceptionnelle du photographe Narciso Contreras sur le trafic d’êtres humains dans le désert libyen, récompensé par le prix Carmignac du photojournalisme.
▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/galeries-photos/photo/20170203.OBS4823/grand-format-dans-l-enfer-du-trafic-d-etres-humains-en-libye.ht
Refugees and migrants fleeing sexual violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya
Horrifying accounts of sexual violence, killings, torture and religious persecution collected by Amnesty International reveal the shocking range of abuses along the smuggling routes to and through Libya. The organization spoke to at least 90 refugees and migrants at reception centres in Puglia and Sicily, who had made the journey across the Mediterranean from Libya to southern Italy in the past few months, and who were abused by people smugglers, traffickers, organized criminal #gangs and armed groups.
Nameless bodies: the horror faced by migrants in Libya
Even after I’d visited the morgue, and spoken to trafficked women, it was Jallo’s story which stuck in my mind.
▻http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/07/nameless-bodies-horror-faced-migrants-libya
#corps #cadavres #morgue
Migrants face torture, rape in journey from Libya to Europe
ABOARD THE AQUARIUS ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (AP) — The young Liberian man went through hell, but when he reached Libya he hoped that there he’d be able to make a living and get an education. Instead, he entered another hell of imprisonment, then near death at sea.
▻http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9b394bbd9eeb42a5b4200f2cdf3f58f2/migrants-face-torture-rape-journey-libya-europe
Libya’s Migrant Economy Is a Modern Day Slave Market
For migrants from sub-Sahran Africa, Libya was a destination even before Muammar Qaddafi fell in 2011, and the country turned itself in a boat launch to Europe. The dictator fancied himself as a munificent overseer of the continent below. When liberation struggles were underway against colonial masters, Qaddafi sent guns and money, and when the newly independent nations set out to organize themselves as a bloc, he not only helped fund the African Union, but proposed an even more ambitious configuration, The United States of Africa. It never went anywhere, not least because the dictator was, of course, more Arab than African. (The north African expanse of the Mahgreb, which includes Libya, is part of Africa on the maps, but separated from the sub-Saharan African region where migrants hail from by both desert and culture.)
▻http://time.com/4538445/libyas-migrant-economy-is-a-modern-day-slave-market