Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces led by Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton overthrew long-serving ruler Col. West African migrants are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya survivors have told a UN agency helping them return home.
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Libya slave market. Women are sold into sex slavery and forced Labour. A CNN report about West African migrants being sold in open-air slave markets in Libya sparked outrage around the globe last month. SLAVE TRADE IN LIBYA SHOCKING DOCUMENTARY.
When they arrived in Libya they realised the smuggler had cheated them. A recent report shows some of them being auctioned off. GENEVA Reuters - Armed groups execute and torture civilians in Libya in almost complete impunity seven years after the revolution.
Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011. Libya migrant slave market footage sparks outrage. They were taken to a slave market and sold.
Slave auctions the commission said are such rare sights and are very discrete and clandestine. Although reports about the growing slave trade in the North African country have been emerging since early 2017. No doubt the slave trade was a real and disturbing phenomenon in Libya and Niger in 2017 as migrants from the rest of Africa passed through the country in an effort to reach Europe.
Footage from Libya released recently by CNN showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets. A Kano based human trafficking syndicate which specialized in trafficking women from Nigeria to Libya for prostitution has been smashed. Libya is the latest hotbed of an industry that sadly lives on in the modern age.
Libyas slave trade The worlds most vulnerable fleeing war and poverty back home are being abused and auctioned off as slaves - a shocking danger facing migrants and refugees in Libya. In lawless Libya many see the slave trade and smuggling as a lucrative industry. Kuperman said the overthrowing and killing of Gaddafi led to many of the problems Libya is dealing with today including the slave trade and its unraveling into a failed state.
The African Union AU has expressed outrage after footage emerged appearing to show sub-Saharan migrants being sold at slave markets in Libya. The probe is being overseen by the governments Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency. A friend told her about a possibility to go to Europe to earn money and they left with a smuggler.
Terrorism and Slave Trade has resumed fully in Libya Today. The journey through the desert was harsh they were suffering from the heat and were hungry and thirsty. Hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans are currently trapped in Libya stranded as they try to reach Europe.
Executions torture and slave markets persist in Libya. In November 2017 the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya NCHRL claimed that the media reports of slavery in Libya were exaggerated and that while slavery existed in Libya it was also rare as well. In a report to the Human Rights Council the OHCHR said Libyans and migrants are still being detained in appalling conditions and sold in open slave markets With the country split between two.
Libya has become a modern-day slave market keeping migrants at the mercy of a complex trafficking web tolerated by the countrys many militia groups an issue largely ignored by the world a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer said on Wednesday. Tackling the countrys humanitarian crisis will require international assistance. There Are Slave Markets In Libya.
Libya opens an investigation into slave markets operating in the country following CNNs exclusive report. Refugees and migrants are being sold at modern-day public slave markets in Libya the UNs migration agency has said. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device.
Trafficked people passing through Libya have. RT Reporter Murad Gazdiev raised an alarm recently after visiting Libya where he said that a black man sells for the sum of 200 Per Head. Heres What You Need To Know.