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A Pandemic of Exclusion: The impact of COVID-19 on the human rights of migrants in Libya

Published

30 August 2021

Focus

Migrants

All over the world, the health, economic, and protection crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected those already in situations of vulnerability and marginalization. In many countries, migrants were among those most at risk of experiencing negative impacts of the pandemic on their ability to access the rights to health, decent work, social protection, and to have their freedom of movement and other fundamental human rights guaranteed. In places where the human rights of migrants were already at risk as a result of discrimination, xenophobia, criminalization, poverty, exploitation, trafficking, and armed conflict, COVID-19 multiplied these risks. This report aims to elucidate the main human rights risks that migrants faced and continue to face, primarily in Libya and in some situations of transit to and from Libya during and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and June 2021.

Issued By:

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

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