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On 2 February, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), stated after a visit to Ethiopia that Eritrean refugees had been "caught in crossfire, abducted and forced to return to Eritrea under duress by Eritrean forces". The UN had access to the Mai Aini camp.
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]
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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 ...
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - On Tuesday morning, Ethiopian mechanic Mohammed Osman placed a phone call he had dreamt of making for 20 years. Kedija, Kedija's mother and more than 70,000 ...
It believes they are an unwarranted attack not only against Eritrea, but also Africa and developing nations." [20] The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report was based on the testimony of 833 anonymous persons purported to be Eritrean. In reaction to this, a significant number of the Eritrean Diaspora population rejected the Commission of Inquiry ...
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 ...