The UN Security Council held an emergency session to condemned the modern-day slavery in Libya and discuss the possibility of sanctions against individuals and entities involved in Libya’s slave trade of African refugees and migrants.

In Libya, Africans refugee and migrants are described as cattle and sold at slave markets. Human rights abuses have been going on in Libya for years even before the overthrown of Gaddafi in 2011. Libya is widely considered a failed state having  gone through endless political crisis with arms trafficking, drug trafficking and human trafficking permeating the country. There are presence of terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda that control large expanses of territory.

The UN Security Council have come together to apply full range of international law on individuals or entity found guilty. A sanction committee has been constituted to identify perpetrators of the human crime.

Libya’s state of lawlessness is the primary factor that created the dark spot the human traffickers are operating in. Libya needs a viable government that can promote justice.

Fingers are pointed to  Italy and Malta where human traffickers come from to buy the refugees. Government in Europe also have a lot to do in terms of policy and regulation

Source : AL JAZEERA NEWS