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The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) was established by the UN Human Rights Council in December 2021. [1] The mandate of the commission is to investigate allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law, humanitarian law and refugee law in Ethiopia committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict. [2]
Aw-barre Refugee camp is located in the Fafan Zone of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was established in 2007 by the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to accommodate Somali refugees seeking international protection and asylum in Ethiopia .
The war with Ethiopia and Eritrea resulted in hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Ethnic clashes had left nearly 100,000 Ethiopians internally displaced. The total number of refugees and IDPs was 65,293 and 250,000 respectively. An estimated 38,500 refugees had gone through the UNHCR-led voluntary repatriation program started in 2004. As ...
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards and controls, following reports of large-scale theft of ...
The DAFI program caters for refugees throughout the country especially those from South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Congo among others. [ 3 ] Widle Trust International has been UNHCR's implementing partner for the DAFI (Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative) scholarship programme, supported by the German Government since 2005.
The World Bank says Ethiopian authorities didn’t consult the bank when they developed the resettlement program, and it didn’t learn of the plan until October 2010. In January 2011, the World Bank and other foreign donors wrote the Ethiopian government warning that forced relocation “can impact negatively on the wellbeing and livelihoods ...
Since November 2020, Sudan has been grappling with a substantial influx of refugees, primarily due to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. [7] The tensions between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front have forced thousands to flee, with an expected influx of 200,000 refugees over six months.
Eritrean residents in Ethiopia's capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who fled their homes in search of a better life ...