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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]
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.
Women in a mill house were raped in kebele 17 of Mekelle after ENDF soldiers scared away the men; and 18 and 20-year-old women were raped in the Ayder area of Mekelle, according to EEPA. [ 21 ] On 15 February, BBC News reported a doctor and a women's rights activist together having registered 200 girls under the age of 18 testifying as rape ...
Flaming cars, violent clashes, dozens of people detained. As one of the world’s most repressive countries marks 30 years of independence, festivals held by Eritrea's diaspora in Europe and North ...
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]
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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 ...
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