UN report finds women migrants in Libya often face gang rape

File photo showing a United Nations logo on a glass door in the Assembly Building at the United Nations headquarters. (Reuters)
  • a new report from the UN support mission in Libya turned up 鈥渦nimaginable horrors鈥� among migrants who seek to reach Europe through largely lawless Libya

GENEVA: The United Nations says interviews of migrants who passed through Libya show that the 鈥渙verwhelming majority鈥� of women and older girls reported being gang-raped by traffickers or witnessed others taken away to be abused.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said a new report issued Thursday along with the UN support mission in Libya turned up 鈥渦nimaginable horrors鈥� among migrants who seek to reach Europe through largely lawless Libya.
The report covers January 2017 to August 2018.
A statement said investigators pulled together 1,300 first-hand accounts for report detailing 鈥渁 terrible litany of violations and abuses committed by a range of state officials, armed groups, smugglers and traffickers against migrants and refugees.鈥�
Those included unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, gang rape, slavery, forced labor and extortion.