Get to know our organisation
A brief overview of our organisation, our mission, our goals, and our team
Who We Are
The organisation is registered with the Civil Society Organisations Support Center, Benghazi, with an announcing number “830” on May 5, 2013. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation. The organisation issues an annual report on the human rights situation in Libya, and it monitors prisons conditions, monitors and documents all violations, and organises events and activities, which seeks to enhance the human rights process in Libya, and spread the human rights culture.
- Chairman of Board of Directors: Mr. Nasser Fathallah Mansour Al-Hawari.
Supporting Human Rights Victims
Victims Organisation provides assistance to all those who are threatened with extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, torture and arbitrary detention. In its work, Victims Organisation mainly resort to international human rights mechanisms, documenting individual cases of human rights violations by communicating with lawyers and families of the victims, and then presenting the information it has obtained to the United Nations and other treaty bodies (in particular the Committee against Torture, the Human Rights Committee, and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances.) It also uses other tools (media, direct pressure groups, campaigning as well as cooperation with other NGOs and civil society) to ensure the protection of those people.
Our Message
Addressing human rights violations in Libya, providing assistance to the victims of these violations, and activating judicial mechanisms and joint work efforts between human rights civil society institutions, in order to overturn laws that contradict the principles of the constitution and human rights, prosecute and punish perpetrators of human rights violations, and provide justice for the victims of these violations.
