Dozens of victims of the tyranny of two previous regimes in Tunisia staged a protest to demand compensation from the authorities, Anadolu has reported. The protest was organized by NGOs the National Committee of Victims of Tyranny and the National Alliance to Complete the Path of Transitional Justice in the capital Tunis.

Fathi Bashagha, a former interior minister, who narrowly failed to become prime minister of an interim Libyan government in a UN process in February, said the UK had a special duty to come to Libya’s aid given David Cameron’s role in the country’s 2011 regime change.

Libya is due to hold a general election on 24 December, the 70th anniversary of its declaration of independence, but there are attempts to delay the polls. Bashagha, who hopes to be elected president, said the West should stand up and support the holding of fair and free elections.

The millions of Syrians displaced by the grinding decade-long war have sought out safety far and wide, in safe havens within the country, in neighboring countries in the region, and further afield. Those who managed to reach Europe often did so against the odds and often after experiencing displacement more than once. Now, one of these countries, Denmark, is taking away from Syrians living in its borders the protection they so desperately sought and still need and, with it, the tiny bit of hope that they have worked so hard to preserve.

The UN’s main human rights body is to meet to discuss launching an investigation into “systematic discrimination and repression” in Israel and Palestine, with the aim of identifying what it said were the root causes of recent Gaza bloodshed.

A draft proposal that calls for unprecedented levels of scrutiny of alleged abuses, called at the request of Muslim states, will be put before the 47-member UN human rights council on Thursday.