The Arab-European Center for Human Rights and International Law voiced concern over the attacks and siege that were enforced on the town of Murzuq in southern Libya.

Amnesty International said that armed groups and security forces in eastern and western Libya continued to commit war crimes and human rights abuses throughout 2018 with impunity.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on forces loyal to Libya’s east-based Interim Government and led by Khalifa Haftar to allow aid and medical workers into the Old City neighborhood of Derna.

Aman Organization Against Discrimination (AOAD) has voiced concern over the violations, attacks on civilians and targeting of people based on their identities in Murzuq.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expressed concern that the media has become an almost impossible task in Libya, where attacks against media and journalists have reached a dangerous point.

The Faiez Serraj Presidency Council and Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) met today with accredited foreign media representative in Tripoli and vowed to facilitate their work in Libya.

Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) registered 3.719 casualties – killed, injured or captured – in Libya in 2018 due to clashes in different cities and districts.

Oxfam and 43 other organisations have accused European Union governments of being complicit in the “tragedy” of migrants crossing from Libya to Italy, saying more than 5,300 people had died in the Mediterranean in the past two years.

Libya has been ranked 170th globally in the Corruption Index for 2018; with no change in its position in 2017.

Over the past two weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Libya have observed a sharp increase in the number of people held in detention centers in Misrata and Khoms.