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[1] [4] [5] Some Western countries, particularly the United States, accuse the government of Eritrea of arbitrary arrest and detentions and of detaining an unknown number of people without charge for their political activism. Additionally, Eritrean citizens, both men and women, are forcibly conscripted into the military with an indefinite ...
Almost 40 percent of women in Eritrea are married by their 21st birthday. Limited access to education is associated with the high prevalence of child marriage in Eritrea. 64% of women aged 20–24 with no education and 53% with primary education were married by 21 years old, compared to just 12% of women with secondary education or higher. [12]
Chyrum tried to support 220 [7] (or 250 [8]) Eritrean refugees in Malta who were threatened with deportation back to Eritrea in 2002. She suggested that they strip naked as a civil disobedience tactic for preventing their deportation. The refugees were deported to Eritrea, and 180 were tortured and interrogated. [7]
Beginning in mid-2022, and escalating after mobilization in September that same year, Eritrea engaged in a mass conscription campaign for the Tigray War. Human Rights Watch reported that families of those who wished to avoid the draft became targets of collective punishment, with government authorities subjecting them to arbitrary detention and ...
Women's education in Eritrea This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 04:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Meron Estefanos (born 6 January 1974) is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and journalist. She first became known in the Eritrean refugee community in 2011 for helping people who had been kidnapped and tortured by human traffickers on their way to Israel in order to extort ransom money from their relatives, exemplified in the 2013 documentary film Sound of Torture.
Eritrean women in politics (1 C, 1 P) P. Political office-holders in Eritrea (4 C) T. Politicians of the Tigray War (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Eritrean politicians"
The group is mainly funded by Eritrean diaspora [1] and is allied with the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation. [2] The DMLEK was founded in April 1, 1995, after Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia. The organization emerged in response to the marginalization and discrimination faced by the Kunama people under the Eritrean government.