The Legislative Guidance Tool offers a blueprint for legislators to create policies and laws which are in line with internationally recognised good practices. It is aimed at parliamentarians and law and policymakers who undertake to develop new or update existing laws for national legislation of the private military and security …

The Montreux Document reaffirms the existing obligations of States under international law, in particular, international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law, relating to the activities of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in situations of armed conflict. The Document also lists good practices to assist States in implementing these obligations. Although …

This Guidance Tool is intended to support States in regulating the use of force by private security providers. The standards, requirements, and good practices contained in this Tool should be incorporated in national legislation, regulations, by-laws, as well as criteria for licensing, authorisation and registration. Additionally, States can use this …

Tripoli Security Directorate has developed a security force called “The Storm of the Capital”, with the mission to support the security services in the western areas of Tripoli.

The so-called Ajdabiya operations room of Haftar’s forces has issued orders to police officers in the city and its suburbs to join the fighting axes in Tripoli immediately, giving them a one week ultimatum to join in.

The Ministry of Labour and Chief of Staff aligned to the internationally recognized government based in Tripoli and led by Faiez Serraj discussed on Tuesday ways of organizing and enlisting what they euphemistically referred to as the ‘‘supporting forces’’ to the Tripoli aligned Libyan army. Supporting forces is the Faiez …

The Libyan Interior Ministry said the decision to transfer police officers to the military brigades of Khalifa Haftar, whose forces are waging war on Tripoli, is an attempt to involve security personnel in military operations, for which they are not fit.

Libyan News Agency – based in Al-Bayda in eastern Libya – said Khalifa Haftar issued Tuesday a decision to transfer 678 police officers and personnel from the Interim Government’s Interior Ministry to his military forces.

The members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) voted Monday unanimously to cancel the position of General Commander of the Libyan Army, which was approved by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives in 2015.

The Interior Ministry called on the security services in the southern region to distance themselves from the decisions made by the east-based parallel government.