The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Monday that orders a fact-finding mission to Libya in order to document violations and abuses committed in the country since 2016.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution without a vote. The resolution strongly condemns all acts of violence in Libya, and urges UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to immediately establish and dispatch a fact-finding mission to the country, according to AFP.

AFP added that the draft resolution was tabled in March by a group of African countries, but the UN's top rights body was forced to suspend its main annual session for three months due to the coronavirus crisis, postponing a vote by the 47-member council until Monday.

The council's 43rd session resumed last week after Switzerland relaxed the measures imposed to halt the spread of COVID-19, and concluded Monday with the Libya resolution the last adopted during the session, according to the news agency.

"The resolution expressed concern at reports of torture, sexual and gender-based violence and harsh conditions in prisons and detention centres." It said.

The fact-finding mission experts will be called on, over the next year, to document alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by all parties in Libya since the beginning of 2016, according to the text, seen by AFP.

The UN Human Rights Council called on the experts to present an oral update on their progress to the council in September, followed by a written report next March.