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31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Country Profile: Libya

Almost any Libyan can tell you the story of a relative or friend imprisoned, tortured, exiled or simply disappeared. ...

2 May 2017 6 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Is Brussels training human traffickers in Libya?

Human traffickers in Libya might be benefiting from a controversial EU training program worth millions. Karlos...

22 Sep 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

‘Libya needs to start again from scratch’: Interview with the President of the Amazigh Supreme Council

Khaire Elhamesi, the elected chair of Libya’s Amazigh representative body, explains to Karlos...

23 Jun 2016 6 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

To be black in Libya

Being black is a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports Karlos...

17 Feb 2016 6 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

What happened to the 'other' Libyans?

Five years after the war that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s Amazigh struggle to reshuffle. Karlos Zurutuza...

31 Jan 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

EU must stop its arms trade hypocrisy

Andrew Smith explains why human rights must be placed at the heart of European foreign policy.

18 Oct 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

PHOTO ESSAY: For Eritrean migrants, there is more dignity in death

Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod capture the painful goodbyes of the survivors of the recent...

29 Jul 2013 3 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

Refugees challenge Tunisia on human rights

Residents from the closed Choucha refugee camp are fighting for resettlement, not ‘local integration’.

13 Mar 2012 8 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Witness-art in the Arab Spring

In trying times, poetry can speak our silences and make sense of our pain, says Yahia Lababidi.

20 Feb 2012 7 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

UN ‘travesty’: resolutions of mass destruction (Part 1)

Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in...

Our pal, Qadafi, or: a lesson in hypocrisy

17 Nov 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Our pal, Qadafi, or: a lesson in hypocrisy

The British government may have condemned him in the end, but only after years of supplying him with weapons, writes ...

25 Oct 2011 6 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Killing Gaddafi: the death of legal justice

First it was Saddam, then bin Laden and now Gaddafi. The West gets its man but loses its humanity, says Felicity Arbuthnot.

Libya, Egypt: Fashioning democracy, packaging revolution

15 Sep 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Libya, Egypt: Fashioning democracy, packaging revolution

Jody McIntyre questions the hypocrisy of Western leaders’ self-interested support for uprisings in the Arab...

12 Sep 2011 5 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

Unending ‘9/11s’: A sad kind of freedom

A day of remembering – but also of not forgetting others who suffered, and continue to suffer, from the fall-out of the ‘war...

From India to Libya: democracy or hypocrisy?

8 Sep 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

From India to Libya: democracy or hypocrisy?

Why is one state deemed democratic and another demonic when repression and corruption are evident in both? Sokari...

Mubarak in the dock, but tyranny runs free

4 Aug 2011 3 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Mubarak in the dock, but tyranny runs free

The bedridden spectacle of Egypt's ex-leader may be a welcome sight, but it shouldn't distract from wider issues at play in...

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