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19th Mar 2024

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EU links Libyan government to human trafficking

The EU and UN-backed Libyan government in Tripoli has turned refugees' misery into a "profitable business model", according to a leaked report by the EU Council presidency, Finland, seen by British newspaper The Guardian. The more than 5,000 people held in Libya camps were victims of "human trafficking" and "serious cases of corruption and bribery", the report said, amid joint EU operations with Libyan authorities to halt Europe-bound migrants.

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Borrell: 'Israel provoking famine', urges more aid access

70 percent of northern Gaza is facing famine, new data shows. There is one shower per 5,500 people, and 888 people per toilet. 'How can you live in these conditions?" asked Natalie Boucly of UNRWA at the European Humanitarian Forum.

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Potential legal avenues to prosecute Navalny's killers

The UN could launch an independent international investigation into Navalny's killing, akin to investigation I conducted on Jamal Khashoggi's assassination, or on Navalny's Novichok poisoning, in my role as special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, writes the secretary-general of Amnesty International.

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