Twenty-Two Libyan NGO’s issue Joint Statement on the World Day against Child Labour

Twenty-two (22) Libyan none-governmental organizations, among them Human Rights Solidarity, published today, Saturday June 12, 2021, a joint statement on the World Day Against Child Labour, expressing their concerns about the increase and spread of child labour in Libya, due to armed conflicts, which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians from their areas, disruption of schooling and exacerbation of the economic and financial crisis.

The organizations called on the relevant authorities in the State of Libya to consider the best interests of the child above all considerations, and to provide the appropriate environment and protection for children, including protecting them from the effects of the spread of the emerging Corona virus, and provide the children of their basic rights, including health, education, and food.

Human Rights Solidarity calls on the Libyan authorities to make more efforts to protect the rights of children in Libya, and to end the illegal and arbitrary detention of children in the prisons of Mitiga and Jdaidah (Tripoli), al-Kerarim (Misrata) and al-Kuweifiya (Benghazi) and other prisons, and in the immigration and refugee detention centres.