A/HRC/43/75 found with gunshot injuries in the Jilyana area of the city on the following day. Reports indicated that both victims were killed for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Support for victims 25. UNSMIL/OHCHR continued its advocacy for accountability for serious and systematic human rights violations and abuses committed by parties to the conflict, with the aim of protecting victims and ensuring the prosecution of perpetrators. UNSMIL/OHCHR also supported victims and their families, providing advice and advocating for remedies with government officials. It also supported civil society bodies working on protection cases through direct cooperation and capacity-building. 26. UNSMIL/OHCHR regularly received requests for medical care and mental health support for victims of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, and referred individual cases of concern, where possible, to appropriate organizations. From March to November, UNSMIL/OHCHR supported a project funded by the European Union and managed by international non-governmental organizations, which provided psychosocial support and direct assistance to 18 Libyan survivors of torture and other forms of violence. Women’s rights IV. 27. Women are disproportionately affected by the broader effects of the armed conflict, which exacerbate their vulnerability to poverty, discrimination and violence. The loss of male family members, for example, results in critical socioeconomic situation for women and their family. Furthermore, their access to health services is severely impeded in locations of active hostilities, as service providers have either fled the conflict zones or cannot provide services due to the ongoing insecurity. UNSMIL/OHCHR noted that incidents of armed attack, ground fighting and airstrikes contributed to a heightened sense of fear among women for their physical safety and that of their family. Women thus tend to remain confined within their homes and villages with their families, or are forced to flee with their families. 28. Among other cases, UNSMIL/OHCHR documented that women were subjected to reprisals, enforced disappearance, sexual violence, prolonged arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment, and intimidation. 29. For instance, concerns about attempts to silence women and exclude them from political institutions continued. On 17 July, Siham Sergewa, a member of the House of Representatives, was abducted from her home in Benghazi by an armed group. A few hours before, in an interview on Al-Hadath television, she called for “an end to the bloodshed”. She criticized General Haftar’s assault on Tripoli, and called for a unity government of all parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, to which some of the groups defending Tripoli belong. At the time of writing, the fate and whereabouts of Ms. Sergewa were still unknown. UNSMIL/OHCHR condemned the abduction and disappearance, calling upon relevant authorities to investigate and disclose her whereabouts.8 30. According to information received, migrant women and girls continue to be disproportionately affected by rape and other forms of sexual violence. UNSMIL/OHCHR continued to collect accounts from migrant women and girls stating that smugglers, traffickers, members of armed groups and detaining authorities had tortured and sexually abused them during travel through Libya and in migrant detention centres, where they are arbitrarily detained without due process or procedural safeguards and in conditions falling below international minimum standards. 8 6 https://unsmil.unmissions.org/unsmil-statement-continued-enforced-disappearance-houserepresentative-member-siham-sergawa.