Human Rights Watch: Mandate of Libya’s fact-finding mission is not enough
The U.N. Human Right Council decision to extend the mandate of the fact-finding mission on Libya for only nine months is not enough and needs to be extended for a year, Human Right Watch noted on Friday. The international non-governmental organization, said that the mission’s investigative work is “incomplete” as “human rights conditions in Libya remain precarious”. “While we welcome the draft resolution tabled at this session renewing the FFM’s mandate, we note with concern the extremely short timeframe proposed that would extend the mandate for a final nine months,” reads the statement of Human Rights Watch. “Human rights conditions in Libya remain precarious as serious abuses carried out by armed groups are rampant and impunity for past abuses continues,” it added. “The FFM’s investigative work has a key role to play in supporting pathways to accountability for past and ongoing violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Libya,” said the New York-based NGO.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 14:38 UTC
Egyptian who disappeared in Libya returns home: Emigration min.
CAIRO - 30 July 2022: The Immigration Ministry announced that it managed to bring home a national who disappeared in Libya for 18 months. In a statement released on Saturday, Minister of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs Nabila Makram said the ministry responded to a request submitted by an Egyptian citizen on the disappearance of his brother in Libya, where he was arrested for unknown reasons while working for a Libyan company. The ministry immediately contacted respective authorities in Egypt and Libya to find out the circumstances of the case and managed to release the national and bring him home, the note added. The ministry urged Egyptian expats to protect themselves through keeping away from areas of turmoil, stressing that Egypt is keen on backing its nationals and guarantee the safety of all Egyptians abroad.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 14:15 UTC
Libya records 150 new cases of COVID-19
The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) reported on Friday that 150 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 22 percent of the infection rate. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have reached more than 500,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,431 people in total. Over two million people received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while over one million were fully vaccinated with two doses.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 13:54 UTC
Professor: The people who say all cops are "racist" are the real racists
Law Enforcement Today is written primarily for law enforcement officers and those who support law enforcement. The majority of our content producers for Law Enforcement Today are active, retired or wounded law enforcement officers. Take the people who have historically supported law enforcement and convince them that cops are now the enemy. And it’s starting with a full onslaught against our law enforcement officers in every way, shape and form. The majority of our content producers for Law Enforcement Today are active, retired or wounded law enforcement officers.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 12:03 UTC
UN says Williams will leave her post tomorrow, July 31
The U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, will leave her post on Sunday, July 31, announced the United Nations on Friday. “As you know, we do have a functioning UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The short extension was as a result of Russian objections who insist that a new UNSMIL head is chosen before it agrees to a longer extension. This led the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to appoint Stephanie Williams as his Special Representative in the meanwhile. The lack of an UNSMIL head has left a vacuum which analysts say has contributed to the current Libyan political and military crisis.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 10:41 UTC
Italy’s Coast Guard strengthens coordination with Operation IRINI
The Coast Guard of Italy has agreed on Friday to deploy a liaison officer to the command of the European Union’s Operation IRINI, which is in charge of overseeing the implementation of the arms embargo in Libya. This came following a meeting at the IRINI’s headquarters in Rome between the chief of the Italian Coast Guard, Vice Admiral Nicola Carlone, and the commander of the operation, Stefano Turchetto. “It was a fruitful exchange of views on the current situation in the Central Mediterranean and the existing collaboration between the two institutions sharing a large part of respective areas of operation,” reads the statement of IRINI. “The Italian Coast Guard assigned a Liaison Officer to the IRINI Head Quarters, assuring a reliable and prompt point of contact in case of interactions between Coast Guard Patrol Boats and ENFM operating at sea,” it said. “Admiral Carlone expressed his gratitude for the support and appreciation for the professionalism of IRINI’s Crews.”
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 09:37 UTC
US judge orders Libya strongman to compensate victims' families
Photo prise le 17 janvier 2020 montrant le maréchal libyen Khalifa Haftar lors de discussions à Athènes avec le ministre grec des Affaires étrangères. Photo: ARIS MESSINIS / AFP/FileSource: AFPNew feature: Check out news exactly for YOU ➡️ find “Recommended for you” block and enjoy! A US judge Friday ordered the military chief of eastern Libya, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, to compensate Libyan plaintiffs who allege he ordered the torture and extrajudicial killings of their family members. The federal judge in the state of Virginia, where Haftar lived before returning to Libya, ruled that he had not cooperated with the court and that by "default" was ordered to pay damages to the families. After taking on a senior military position in Libya's war with Chad, Haftar was taken as a prisoner of war, and subsequently disavowed by Kadhafi.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 02:31 UTC
Libya: UN Rights Body Should Renew Fact-Finding Mission
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via APThank you, Mr Vice President,Human Rights Watch welcomes the third report of the Independent Fact Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya, and notes the Libyan government’s cooperation with the Mission during its recent visits to the country. Human rights conditions in Libya remain precarious as serious abuses carried out by armed groups are rampant and impunity for past abuses continues. Sweeping restrictions against domestic and international civic groups in the country remain in place, effectively muzzling independent groups doing vital human rights and humanitarian work. The FFM’s investigative work has a key role to play in supporting pathways to accountability for past and ongoing violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Libya.
Source:Libya Today
July 30, 2022 00:40 UTC
Libya’s peace remains fragile as election disputes defy resolution
Many fear that the fragile peace in the country could collapse if disputes over the election are not resolved quickly. Khalifa Haftar submits documents for his candidacy for the Libyan presidential election at the High National Election Commission in Benghazi on Nov. 16, 2021. (AFP)The road to the presidential election in Libya was never going to be easy. He named his forces the Libyan National Army. Subsequently, the House of Representatives passed a vote of no-confidence in the unity government, casting the election and the hard-won peace into doubt.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 23:46 UTC
Since the fall of Draghi, the arrivals of migrants from Libya have doubled
In the last 14 days, since the Italian political crisis began, the landings of migrants in our country have been 7,365, about 20 percent of the total number of arrivals since the beginning of the year. In the previous 14 days of July, with the same weather conditions, there were 4,287, about half. Arrivals from Libya since the beginning of the year have been 21,000,
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 21:41 UTC
Ian Martin, All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya (New Texts Out Now)
The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya (London, C. Hurst & Co., 2022). Ian Martin (IM): I wanted to reassess the international intervention in Libya, to ask how it shaped Libya’s subsequent trajectory, and to explore what lessons there might be for international intervention more generally. What were the dynamics that brought about the resolutions of the UN Security Council, including the authorization of military action? My 2001 book, Self-Determination in East Timor: the United Nations, the Ballot and International Intervention, includes an analysis of another major international military intervention mandated by the UN Security Council. But the circumstances of Libya in 2011 suggest that what was needed was a complementarity of UN and AU efforts, with consistent support from all actors.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 15:04 UTC
What is BCI and How Will it Impact Enterprises?
Beyond HCI, the next epoch of development will see the rise of brain computer interface (BCI) technologies where no gestures are required. NextMind’s latest innovations include a controller that can read brain signals, allowing enterprises to enable gestureless communication between users and their digital environments, machines, and even brain signals as a trigger for events. The BCI interface creates a direct line of communication between the brain and device. Invasive BCIs – In invasive BCI, electrodes are surgically implanted beneath the scalp to relay brain signals. Partially invasive BCIs – Partially invasive BCI devices are inserted into the skull but rest outside the grey matter, as opposed to within it.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 12:35 UTC
Oil steady as market weighs tight supply against recession fears
WASHINGTON: Oil prices were steady to higher in Asia trade on Friday, lifted by supply concerns as attention turns to the next meeting between Opec and its allies, though fears of recession capped gains. “Oil prices have little chance of (posting) deep losses on the back of a weak US dollar and the ongoing supply crunch,” said CMC Markets analyst Tina Teng. Opec+ sources said the group will consider keeping oil output unchanged for September, but two Opec+ sources also told Reuters a modest increase would be discussed. A senior US administration official said on Thursday the government was optimistic about the Opec+ meeting, and said extra supply would help stabilise the market. “Opec production is constrained, though supplies are stabilising in Libya and Ecuador.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 11:30 UTC
Webex Meetings Gains Metaverse Tools
This Thursday, Vection Technologies debuted a Metaverse embedded app in Webex’s application suite for enterprise-grade collaboration. Vection is introducing “3D Frame” to the Webex application by Cisco, a service for conducting business meetings in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. Webex built its immersive system as a low-code solution to create bespoke VR collaboration spaces seamlessly. Additionally, a 3D Frame user can transform a 2D Webex session into a VR meeting room without leaving the application. During a 3D Frame Metaverse meeting, the platform allows workers to share and stream file types, including photos, videos, PDFs, and real-time 3D (RT3D) models.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 10:39 UTC
How could the war in Ukraine end? We asked three Maltese experts
With the Ukraine-Russia war entering its fifth month – or at least five months since Putin announced his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine – the war is increasingly reaching a difficult stalemate with little left to win or lose. “Currently, the Ukraine has western support and talks of mobilising up to a million new recruits in the field,” she said. Putin’s imperial project to wipe out Ukraine is unacceptable, but a unipolar world where the US imposes its hegemony is also unacceptable. “However, pursuant to the invasion, changes have occurred on the international level not seen since the end of the Cold War,” she pointed out. “I envisage that EU and NATO countries will have to increase their defence spending for many years to come.
Source:Libya Today
July 29, 2022 09:31 UTC