© 2022 Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty ImagesThe contrast between the resolution on Libya adopted this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s final report detailing violations and abuses in Libya is staggering. The Libya resolution was drafted by the Libyan government itself – an established practice at the HRC that is abused by governments looking to evade scrutiny. First, a failure to apply the same standards across situations of grave human rights violations and to support accountability where international crimes are documented. Second, a failure to acknowledge the Fact-Finding Mission’s conclusion that its key partners in Libya are committing crimes against humanity. Every day the EU ignores well-documented and increasing evidence of crimes by entities it supports in Libya, it becomes even more complicit in abuses in the Mediterranean and in Libya.
