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The Eritrean Civil Code (articles 329 and 581) sets the minimum age of marriage at 18 years for both girls and boys although this is the case because of social norms women still get married at younger ages. This makes it difficult for women to pursue higher education because they are expected to work in subsistence agriculture and prepare food ...
[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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Women's rights in Eritrea" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Aster Yohannes is a veteran of Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and an independence activist. Post-independence, she was working in the ministry of Fishery and Marine Resources in 1995. She also is the wife of detained Eritrean politician Petros Solomon.
HRCE stated that ten Eritrean refugees at the Hitsats refugee camp were shot dead and forty wounded on 23 November 2020. A few days later, the wounded refugees were taken to Eritrea. On 5 January 2021, all the remaining refugees were forced to walk to Sheraro, which they did in two to three days. They were then deported on trucks to Eritrea. [6]
Born in Asmara, Saba Kidane dropped out of school and joined the Eritrean People's Liberation Front at the age of 13. [1] She returned to school in 1995. [2] She was a program director for youth radio and is a single mother. [3] Most of her poetry is composed in Tigrinya. Her poetry addresses children, everyday life, social issues, and the ...
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.