Resources

Navigating new waters: why the EU’s new migration pact has to change the tide

Louisa Waugh asks whether the new migration and asylum pact will embody the fundamental EU values of respect for human dignity and rights, freedom, equality and the rule of law?    

Joint statement: Time to review and remedy EU cooperation policies facilitating abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya

One year after the resumption of the armed conflict in Tripoli, and as the humanitarian situation in Libya continues to deteriorate due to further military escalation and the spreading of Covid-19, thirteen international non-governmental organisations are calling on EU institutions to stop any actions trapping people in a country where they are in constant, grave danger.

Joint statement: Time to review and remedy EU cooperation policies facilitating abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya

Partners in crime? The impacts of Europe’s outsourced migration controls on peace, stability and rights

Building inclusive peace: gender at the heart of conflict analysis

Libya: a second chance?

Former Saferworld Director Henry Smith shares his thoughts on the lessons to be drawn from international post-conflict support to Libya following the toppling of Colonel Gadhafi. 

Policing resources

Civil society under threat in Libya

In November 2014, three young social media activists were beheaded by a militant group in Derna, a port city in eastern Libya. This brutal act marks the latest in a bout of targeted killings of human rights and youth activists, say Leonie Northedge and Kate Nevens, and threatens to extinguish the country’s nascent civil society movement, and with it, Libya’s hopes for an inclusive political process.

Gender, peace and security in MENA

In the period of 2013-14, a particular focus for Saferworld has been a project involving women in Egypt, Libya and Yemen, which has sought to discover the causes of insecurity and to empower regional activists to work together.