107 civil society networks and organizations condemns crimes against humanity committed by the Libyan regime and calls on the United Nations for urgent action to protect the people of Libya

Third statement 23/2/2011

As the Libyan regime entered the stage of air strikes to hit the civil popular disobedience, using hand grenades and machine guns in attacking its citizens, and moving warships out, the confrontation of the authority with the Libyan nationals moves out of the scope of use of excessive force to war crimes and crimes against humanity, which has resulted so far in the fall of alarming numbers dead and wounded, and those could not be documented under the current circumstances, and Libyan hospitals are unable to deal with them.

These developments come a few hours after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi appeared on Libyan television and threatened to go to civil war unless the Libyan people complies to his proposals to stop the Revolution in exchange for the preparation of a constitution and legislative reform, as if 42 years of government without a constitution and without laws, the true laws, were not sufficient to implement this step.
The worst in the message delivered by Saif al-Islam to his own citizens is warning the citizens, in addition to the civil war, of dividing the country, of foreign occupation, fighting against them until the last man and last bullet, raising people against Tunisian and Egyptian communities, and the use of Islamists “scarecrow” and oil to attract support of the Western states to the regime.

It is regrettable that the Western countries, the self-proclaimed defender of human rights did not only assume negative attitudes of the massacres perpetrated by the Libyan regime but even solicited the same excuses echoing the concerns of the same allegations, which Saif al-Islam claimed on ” Islamic Emirates ” established close to Europe, which was expressed by the European Union on the one hand, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy on the other hand.

The signatory organizations express their respect of conscientious objection expressed by the Libyan pilots refusing to bomb civilians and their resorting with their planes to Malta, and considers it a continuation of a similar conduct expressed by the forces of the army and security in the eastern region.

The signatory organizations call to amend the constitutional provisions on the powers of the Arab armed forces (land, sea and air) so as to provide explicitly for the criminalization of all those who give an order and / or the use of force against the people and limiting their tasks in the defending the homeland and the people and not defending the rulers and thrones.

They demand the international community, represented in the United Nations, to take urgent and effective measures, particularly banning the flying of warplanes and suspension of membership, to stop the ongoing carnage against the Libyan people in Tripoli and trends declaring the bombarding of the city of Benghazi, and they demanded international, Arab, and Islamic organizations of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to take everything in their power to help the wounded and injured.
The undersigned organizations demand the governments of Egypt and Tunisia to shoulder their responsibilities to intervene with the Libyan officials to stop the attacks on the Egyptian and Tunisian communities, which resulted until the preparing of this statement in the killing of ten Egyptian citizens and wounded dozens other, forcing the Egyptian army to establish field hospitals near the Egyptian-Libyan borders.
They also call on all countries of the world not to provide a safe haven for Libyan officials involved in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Libyan people, and stress the need to hold them accountable and to prevent impunity.

Regional Arab NGOs

1-  The Arab Organization for Human Rights/ Egypt (included 22 organizations and 18 Arab countries)

2-  Arab’s coalition against death penalty (included 9 national’s coalitions and 9 Arab countries)

3-  Election network on the Arab regions (included 30 networks and organizations in 12 Arab countries)

4-  Human rights trainers networks in the Arab regions (included 170 trainers).

5-  The Arab Women Network (included 17 organization in 17 Arab countries)

6-  Gulf Civil Society Forum (included more than 100 Academic, Jurist, Median and Thinker from the Gulf States).

7-  Arab network to protect the human rights defenders (included 18 organization from 9 Arab countries)

8-  The Arab Organization for Youth Lawyers.

9-  The Arab Group for Media Watch. (included 12 organization in 12 Arab countries)

10-  Arab society for Academic freedom

11-  The Arab Foundation for Supporting the Judiciary Reforms.

12-  The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA)

13-  The Center of Arab Women media Workers.

14-  The Arab Coalition for Darfor (include 90 organization from Arab countries)

15-  Gulf coalition for International Criminal court.

National NGOs

Jordan

16-  Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS]

17-  Amnesty International/ the Jordan Group.

18-  The Arab Organization for Human Rights/ Jordan.

19-  Al-Badil Center for Studies and Training

20-  The Jordanian Network for Civil Society Organization (included 16 organizations).

21-  The Jordanian network for Human Rights Trainers (included 45 trainers)

22-  The Jordanian Women Union

23-  The Jordanian Association of Democratic Culture.

24-  The Society of Working Women.

25-  The Society of Arab Women.

26-  The Society for the Development of the Family.

27-  The Al Baqaa Women Charity Society.

28-  Mosawat Network (included 87 woman associations)

Palestine:

29-  The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) (Consists of 132 human rights organizations).

30-  The Association School for Mothers.

31-  The Health Work Committees.

Iraq

32-  Iraqi coalition for human rights organizations (included 30 human rights organizations)

33-  Freedom’s coalition in Iraq (included 72 organizations)

34-  Civic coalition for minorities in Iraq (included 12 organizations)

35-  Popular Aid Organization(PAO)

36-  Azidi Solidarity and Fraternity Organizations

37-  AL Masalah Organization for Development of Human Recourses.

38-  Iraq’s Organization for Development and Peaceful Gathering.

39-  Baghdad women society

40-  Leadership Women Institution

41-  Iraqi Human Rights Foundation

42-  Human Rights Center in Iraq

43-  South youth organization.

44-  Hamurabi organization for human rights and democracy watch

45-  Touz organization for human rights studies.

46-  Iraqi Al-Rayah organization for human rights.

47-  Media organization for human rights.

Syria

48-  Arab Organization for human rights in Syria

49-  National Organization for Human Rights in Syria

50-  Kurdish committee for human rights in Syria (AL Rassased)

51-  Committee for defending democratic freedom and human rights in Syria

52-  Kurdish  Organization  for defending  human rights and democratic freedom in Syria(DAD)

53-  Women initiative committee

54-  Committee “together” to support women issues

55-   Human Rights Organization in Syria(MAF)

56-  Committees For The Defense Of Democracy Freedoms And Human Rights In Syria

57-  Syrian Monitor for human rights.

Lebanon:

58-  Lebanon Society for Human Rights.

59-  Lebanon Women Rights Committee

60-  International worker foundation.

Yemen

61-  Yemen coalition for transparency  and anticorruption (included 50 organizations)

62-  Center  for human rights Information and rehabilitation

63-  Yemen organization defending rights and democratic freedom

64-  Yemen organization for development and rehabilitation

65-  Change organization for Defending  Rights and Freedom

66-  Yemen center for human rights

67-  Democratic social forum

68-  Sister hoods for human rights

69-  Yemen Coalition for Civil society organizations (included 27 organizations)

70-  Yemen Network for human rights (7 organization).

Sudan

71-  Civil forum in Sudan (include more than 54 organizations)

72-  Center for gender’s studies

Bahrain

73-  Bahrain Human Rights Society.

74-  The Bahrain Women Union.

75-  Bahrain Society for Transparency.

76-  Bahrain Dentist Society

77-  Bahrain Teachers Society

78-  Bahrain Sociologists Society

79-  General Trade Unions of Bahrain

80-  National Association to support education and training

Algeria:

81-  Algerian League for  Defending  human rights

82-  Algerian League for human rights

Saudi Arabia:

83-  Women Rights Association

Morocco

84-  Nations Institute for Development and Cooperation and the International Research and Studies

85-  Moroccan League for  Defending  human rights

86-  Moroccan Center for Human Rights.

87-  Moroccan Monitor for  Defending  Voter rights

88-  Moroccan Foundation for Human Rights.

89-  Center for human Rights

Kuwait:

90-  Kuwait Coalition for International Criminal Court

Libya:

91-  Human Rights Solidarity Organization

92-  Libyan League for  Defending  human rights

Egypt

93-  Al Kelmah Center for Human Rights.

94-  Land Center for Human Rights.

95-  Egyptian Association against medical negligence

96-  Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners

97-  The Arab Association for Democracy and Human Rights Studies.

98-  Maat Center.

99-  Forum for Women Development.

100- Egyptian Association for civil education and human rights.

101- Solidarity Association for Development and Human Rights