Home ›

Category - Libya

  • 27 Apr 2011
    Government report shows UK arms exports to Libya throughout 2010

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Strategic Export Control Reports reveal the UK government continued to licence arms exports to Libya till the end of 2010.

  • 26 Apr 2011
    Pope urges compassion for conflict refugees

    Pope Benedict has called for an end to violence in Libya and the Ivory Coast and has prayed for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

  • 20 Apr 2011
    Recall Parliament to debate Libya, says Plaid

    Plaid Cymru has said Parliament should be recalled as military action in Libya is in danger of going beyond the original aim of protecting civilians.

  • 20 Apr 2011
    International community urged to increase aid to Misratah

    The international community must immediately step up humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Misratah, Amnesty International has said

  • 20 Apr 2011
    Analysing the situations in Libya and Syria

    As we approach the Sacred Triduum in Holy Week, when Christians reflect on the profound sacrifice Christ made for humankind, and at a time when the Jewish community has started the feast of Passover, a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region seems religiously natural - as well as politically topical.

  • 19 Apr 2011
    Church aid group urges Europe to do more for Libyan refugees

    An ecumenical church aid organisation has urged European governments to do more to help refugees from the war in Libya.

  • 12 Apr 2011
    Libyan uprising: a comprehensive curated resource list

    The ICT4Peace Foundation’s crisis information management wiki on Libya was created six weeks ago and last updated on 5 April 2011. The first resource of its kind on the web when it launched - and still the most comprehensive curated list of resources available on on recent developments in Libya, the wiki features hundreds of data points.

  • 8 Apr 2011
    A lesser evil? Libya and the ‘responsibility to protect’

    Is humanitarian military intervention correctly characterised 'lesser evil'? John Heathershaw considers five questions about the nature and the prospects of intervention in Libya. He asks poignantly where the responsibility is in the much-vaunted ‘responsibility to protect’?

  • 6 Apr 2011
    Global church bodies seek support for Libya refugees

    The WCC, Conference of European Churches and the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe have expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Libya.

  • 6 Apr 2011
    Libya and a decade-long war

    The west’s military-political strategy against the Gaddafi regime echoes its flawed approach to Afghanistan and Iraq, says Professor Paul Rogers. Nato is a military alliance, whose political masters still seem unable to think more creatively. The living consequences of Afghanistan and Iraq make the vacuum in Libya all the more dismaying.