UN considers sanctions to fight Libya slave trade
Nov 29, 2017 9:44 AM France's ambassador to the UN has urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the people involved in Libya's slave trade of African refugees and migrants. Francois Delattre's comments come as human trafficking in Libya has become a burning topic since a CNN investigation produced footage of West Africans being sold at slave markets in November. "France will propose to assist the sanctions committee … in identifying responsible individuals and entities for trafficking through Libyan territory," he told the council on Tuesday. "We count upon support of the members of the council to make headway to that end." A sanctions programme set up in 2011, the year of the US-supported invasion of Libya which saw the overthrow of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi, allows the Security Council to place sanctions on "individuals and entities involved in or complicit in ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, the commission of ...