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Libya
North Africa
Documenting violations across rival authorities, supporting defenders displaced by conflict, and advocating for accountability in Libya.
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Our position on Libya
We call for accountability for crimes against civilians and migrants in Libya, the protection of journalists and activists across all controlled territories, and the inclusion of civil society in any political settlement.
— HuMENA
The Region, Connected
No country in MENA stands alone.
This country sits at the centre of the threads HuMENA follows — across borders where defenders flee, refugees move, and accountability converges.
Signature
Where our work concentrates here.
Five strategic areas — Civic Space, Defenders, Digital Rights, Governance, Diaspora. Bar height shows the depth of HuMENA's coverage in that area for this country.
Civic Space
Defending freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
Defenders
Protection support and case advocacy for defenders at risk.
Digital Rights
Surveillance accountability and digital safety for civil society.
Governance
Fair-trial monitoring, judicial independence, and inclusive governance.
Diaspora
Cross-border protection and amplification of exiled voices.
Chronicle
A working record of our interventions.
Statements, reports, advocacy moments, defender cases. Chronological. Growing.
May 2025
LEGAL & POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Dec 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jun 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Dec 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jul 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jul 2023
PRESS RELEASES
At the international level
Where this work meets the institutions.
HuMENA carries documentation into the mechanisms with the most leverage — UN bodies, EU institutions, and joint civil-society coalitions.
UN Fact-Finding Mission
Submissions and follow-up engagement
UN UPR
Joint civil-society submissions
EU advocacy
On protection of migrants and defenders
Defenders
The people behind the work.
HuMENA stands with human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, and activists. Where their identities can be public, we credit them. Where they cannot, we protect them.
Publications
Reports, statements, and analyses.
Transnational Oppression: Gendered Repression Across Borders
How Civil Society Organizations in North Africa Can Thrive Under Authoritarian Regimes
Politicizing Laws: Legitimizing impunity in time of political division
56 NGOs: The Greek state crime of Pylos will neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
Joint Statement| Italy Must Review its Decision to Classify Egypt as a “Safe Country of Origin”
EU should uphold human rights and accountability in negotiation of strategic partnership with Egypt
NGOs’ Joint Letter to Italian Prime Minister_President of the Chamber of Deputies_President of the Senate
HuMENA and rights groups calling on UN mechanisms to intervene to stop violations of freedom of assembly in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Egypt: Quash Verdicts and Stop Unfair Trials by Emergency Courts
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