UN rights mission blasts EU on Libya migrant abuses

Geneva, Switzerland Reuters European Union backing for Libyan authorities who stop and detain migrants means the bloc has “aided and abetted” rights violations against migrants, an investigator for a UN mission said on Monday. The EU and member states have supported and trained the Libyan coastguard, which returns migrants stopped at sea to detention centres, […]
More must be done to help people displaced by fighting in northern Nigeria, says key UN official
More must be done to protect and ensure the survival of hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes thanks to a Boko Haram-led insurgency in northern Nigeria, according to a key UN offcial. Noting that the fighting has created more than 2.5 million IDPs in the region, Chaloka Beyani, the Special Rapporteur on the […]