Refugees in Libya publishes reports, investigations, testimonies, legal and policy papers, campaign materials and collective documentation produced with and by affected communities. Our publications preserve evidence, make abuses visible, support advocacy and accountability, and create a public record of struggles that are too often documented by institutions without the people most affected controlling the narrative.
BOOK OF SHAME 2025 - VOL I
Title: BOOK OF SHAME
Type: Testimony Collection
Date Published: 12 SEP 2025
Book of Shame 2025 — Vol. I documents patterns of violence, abuse and institutional responsibility affecting refugees and migrants along the Central Mediterranean route, with particular focus on Libya and the systems that sustain these abuses. Produced by Refugees in Libya, it brings together testimony, documentation and analysis to preserve a public record of what survivors have endured and to challenge the political and institutional structures that enable impunity.
Language: EN / FR / IT
Joint Publications / Partners
Resistance at the Borders
Resistances at the Borders: Stories of Life and Struggle Between Italy and Tunisia — January 2025 examines repression, border externalisation and migrant self-organisation in Tunisia, with particular attention to the informal camps in the olive groves of Sfax and the protest movements that emerged from Zarzis and Tunis. Co-authored with members of Refugees in Libya and Refugees in Tunisia, it brings together testimony, political analysis and documentation of collective resistance, solidarity and survival in response to institutional abandonment and border violence.
Situation in Libya at the International Criminal Court — Position Paper
Published jointly by Refugees in Libya and ECCHR, this position paper examines major accountability gaps in the ICC’s Libya investigation and challenges plans to conclude investigations while crimes and impunity persist. It calls for continued investigation of crimes against refugees and migrants, scrutiny of potential responsibility of European and EU actors, and a more meaningful application of complementarity and survivor-centred justice.
Business as Usual — OHCHR & UNSMIL
Business as Usual: Human Rights Violations and Abuses against Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and Refugees in Libya documents widespread and systematic abuses recorded across Libya during 2024 and 2025, including arbitrary detention, torture, trafficking, forced labour, sexual exploitation, extortion, violent interceptions at sea and forced returns. Jointly published by OHCHR and UNSMIL, the report describes these abuses as part of an entrenched, profit-driven system involving traffickers, armed groups and State-affiliated actors.
