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Women, State Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence: The Sale of Black Migrants from Tunisia to Libya

Wednesday, 22 April 2026
18:00 - 20:00 GMT+2
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Women, State Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence: The Sale of Black Migrants from Tunisia to Libya
                                                                        

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Women, State Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence: | 

The Sale of Black Migrants from Tunisia to Libya . 

📅 Date:
22/04/2026 | 
🕐 Time:
18:00 - 20:00 | 
📍 Location:
Room SPAAK 7C50, European Parliament, Brussels | 

About the Event : 


This event will bring together policymakers, researchers, human rights experts, and witnesses to shed light on the alarming realities of trafficking, racialized violence, and systemic abuses affecting migrants, particularly women, between Tunisia and Libya.

Following up the first report released in January 2025, another breakthrough researching work will be presented by the international research group alongside witnesses and victims of this system of sale of human beings.


Hosted by : 


Ilaria SALIS, Member of the European Parliament, The Left, Italy
MEP   Italy 
The Left Bureau
Member of the European Parliament
  Left  The Left group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL  |   AVS  Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra 
Ilaria SALIS
Committees
LIBECivil Liberties, Justice & Home Affairs
AFETForeign Affairs
DROIHuman Rights (Subcommittee)
HOUSHOUS Committee
Delegations
DMEDDelegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean
DMAGDelegation for relations with the Maghreb countries & the Arab Maghreb Union, including joint committees with Morocco, Tunisia & Algeria
DACPDelegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DAFRDAFR Delegation
Leoluca ORLANDO, Member of the European Parliament, Greens, Italy
MEP   Italy 
Member of the European Parliament
  Greens  Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance  |   Independent  Independent 
Leoluca ORLANDO
Committees
AFETForeign Affairs
LIBECivil Liberties, Justice & Home Affairs
AFCOConstitutional Affairs
Delegations
V-CHAIR DMASDMAS Delegation
DMEDDelegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean
D-TRDelegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee
DPALDPAL Delegation
Cecilia STRADA, Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Italy
MEP   Italy 
Member of the European Parliament
  SD  Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament  |   PD  Partito Democratico 
Cecilia STRADA
Committees
LIBECivil Liberties, Justice & Home Affairs
DEVEDevelopment
EMPLEmployment & Social Affairs
FEMMWomen’s Rights & Gender Equality
Delegations
V-CHAIR DMASDMAS Delegation
DPALDPAL Delegation

Speakers : 


⬇ Programme
RXX, Researcher X, International Research Group, Tunisia
RXX
International Research Group
Researcher X
RXX
RRX is an international research group that has decided to remain anonymous and go by a collective pseudonym. This choice is dictated by the need to protect their safety while allowing them to continue their work on a topic that cannot be researched freely in Tunisia without being subjected to radical repression. The group planned the research, collected and analysed the materials, as well as supervising the entire research process.
Filippo FURRI, Anthropologist, Border Forensics, Italy
Filippo FURRI
Anthropologist
Border Forensics
Rose Tchapet SOUCHTOUA, Witness, International Research Group, Tunisia
Rose Tchapet SOUCHTOUA
Witness in the report

Souleymane DIALLO, Witness, International Research Group, Tunisia
Souleymane DIALLO
Witness in the report

Siobhán MULLALLY, UN Special Rapporteur, United Nations, Ireland
Siobhán MULLALLY
UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons
especially women and children
United Nations
Ulrich STEGE, Member, Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI), Italy
Ulrich STEGE
Member
Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI)
Olivia SUNDBERG, EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum, Amnesty International EU, Belgium
Olivia SUNDBERG
EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum
Amnesty International EU

Programme : 


18:00
Opening
MEP Leoluca Orlando and screening of a sequence of "Les Aventuriers" (by Michele Cinque | film director and producer)
18:10
First Panel – Women State Trafficking: Gender-Based Violence and Sale of Black Migrants from Tunisia to Libya
Moderation and introduction: MEP Ilaria Salis
RXX | Researcher X
Filippo Furri | Border Forensics
Rose Tchapet Souchtoua | witness of the report
Souleymane Diallo (remote) | witness of the report
Additional witnesses
19:05
Short Break
19:15
Second Panel – State Accountability: Combating Trafficking and Collective Expulsions
Moderation and introduction: MEP Cecilia Strada
Siobhán Mullally | UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
Ulrich Stege | Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI)
Olivia Sundberg | Amnesty International EU
19:45
Q&A / Open Discussion with audience
20:00
Closing remarks by MEPs
Important – This event is by invitation, and only registered participants will be admitted. Due to capacity constraints, all attendees must register, including those already holding a European Parliament access badge. Registration is mandatory for admission.
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