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Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and ...
Women's role is centered on processing and preparing food as well as milking of goats and cows. In most areas farming is the mainstay, men and women work in the fields and share agricultural work in the communal land of Eritrea. In addition to this, women are involved in backyard gardening, poultry and beekeeping as well as weaving.
Eritrea is a one-party state in which national legislative elections have been repeatedly postponed, [3] [5] and its human rights record is considered among the worst in the world. [10] [11] Since Eritrea's conflict with Ethiopia in 1998–2001, Eritrea's human rights record has worsened. [12]
On February 9, 2009, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was arrested with about 30 other people in the radio station building; she was the only woman among those arrested. [9] [10] She was accused of having ties to foreign media; other arbitrary charges included allegedly plotting to assassinate the President and belittling politicians. [11]
Eritrea is a source country for trafficking, with men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and, to a lesser extent, forced prostitution. The country's national service program requires men aged 18–54 and women aged 18–47 to serve for 18 months in military and non-military public works and services.
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 ...
That advocates for the rights and autonomy of the Kunama people, one of the nine ethnic groups in the country. 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.
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.