Refugees and migrants fleeing sexual violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya

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