After Nigerians, others are enslaved in Libya, UN considers sanctions against perpetrators
- Libyan human defender, Omar Turbi, has said that human rights violation has been going on for a while in Libya
- France said it will propose to assist the sanctions committee in identifying responsible individuals and entities for trafficking through Libyan territory
- The country said it is counting on the support of the members of the council to make headway to this end
France’s ambassador to the UN, Francois Delattre, has urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on perpetrators of Libya’s slave trade.
Aljazeera reports that Delattre’s comments comes as human trafficking in Libya has become a burning topic since a CNN investigation produced footage of West Africans being sold at slave markets in November.
He said: “France will propose to assist the sanctions committee in identifying responsible individuals and entities for trafficking through Libyan territory.
"We count upon support of the members of the council to make headway to that end."
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Legit.ng gathered that a sanction programme put in place in 2011, the same year the US-supported invasion set up in 2011 that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, allows sanctions on individuals and entities involved human rights abuses against persons in Libya.
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A human rights defender, Omar Turbi, said: "This has been going for quite some time.”
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said: "To see the pictures of these men being treated like cattle, and to hear the auctioneer describe them as big strong boys for farm work, should shock the conscience of us all."
Legit.ng had previously reported that the federal government repatriated 242 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya on Tuesday, 28, following series of messages of their predicament circulated. Punch reports that the migrants returned to Nigeria on the evening of Tuesday.
The foreign affairs ministry’s spokesman, Tiwatope Elias-Fatile, said the mission has been visiting detention camps to identify Nigerians for registration and to issue Emergency Travelling Certificates to them.
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Source: Legit.ng
