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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]
Infibulation is the ritual removal of the vulva and its suturing, a practice found mainly in northeastern Africa, particularly in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. [1] The World Health Organization refers to the procedure as Type III female genital mutilation .
At time of liberation by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and independence, there were 4,000 prostitutes in the country, [12] and 2,000 Ethiopian women were deported in an attempt to curtail prostitution. [6] [12] With the spread of HIV in the 1990s, prostitution was regulated and sex workers were required to have a monthly health check ...
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.
Vanessa Tsehaye was born to Eritrean parents in 1996 in Sweden, where she grew up. [2] In 2001, Vanessa was told about the arrest of her maternal uncle Seyoum Tsehaye, [4] a former head of Eritrean public television Eri-TV. [2] [5] Vanessa describes being perplexed by the arrest. She started to collect money at her high school, hoping to pay ...
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]
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 ...