Overview
- Compiled by the U.N. human rights office and UNSMIL, the report documents killings, torture, sexual violence and trafficking targeting migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya from January 2024 to December 2025.
- Survivor accounts detail a ransom economy and forced labor, including testimony from an Eritrean woman held in Tobruk who said girls as young as 14 were raped daily.
- The report estimates about 5,000 people in so‑called official detention centers after sea interceptions face sexual and gender‑based violence, torture, slavery and enforced disappearance.
- It links abuses to criminal networks with ties to Libyan authorities and notes that EU‑supported Libyan coastguard operations have led to violent interceptions and returns to detention.
- OHCHR calls on the EU and other partners to suspend interceptions and returns to Libya until robust human rights safeguards and accountability mechanisms are in place, while preserving life‑saving search‑and‑rescue at sea.