The ICRC in Libya

The ICRC is visiting detainees, tracing missing persons, working with the Libyan Red Crescent to help people injured or displaced by violence and training Libyan Red Crescent and other volunteers to highlight the dangers of explosive remnants of war. The organization is also working towards an environment conducive to compliance with IHL and universal humanitarian principles, by promoting these rules with the Libyan authorities and providing expertise on their teaching and integration to the Libyan army and security forces.

Highlights

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Facts and Figures

In 2012, the ICRC:

provided more than 55,000 people with food and more than 120,000 with essential household items;
carried out 184 visits to 86 places of detention, where more than 12,600 detainees had been held, albeit not at the same time;
completed 19 water projects, providing drinking water for more than 740,000 people;
supported several health facilities in Gharyan, Assaba, Kufra, Sabha, Brak and Bani Walid; this support included providing surgical and other medical items for the treatment hundreds of wounded people;
donated 13 ambulances and 5 mini-buses to the Libyan Red Crescent Society;
removed 8,948 explosive devices and 12,524 rounds of small arms ammunition in the Nafusa Mountains, Bani Walid, Misrata, Sirte, Zwara, Ragdaline and Tripoli.

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