Open Letter to H.E. Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the US to the UN in New York on the Human Rights Record of Eritrea

By HRCE
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March 17, 2021March 18, 2021

Your Excellency, May I congratulate you on your appointment as US Ambassador to the United Nations, and wish you success and accomplishment in your important role. I write to you on behalf of Human Rights Concern – Eritrea, as the US holds the presidency at the…

Open letter to Member States of the United Nations General Assembly – Re: Eritrea Seeking a Seat on UN Human Rights Council

By HRCE
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March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

Dear Members of the United Nation General Assembly, We are writing to you with a sense of considerable urgency to raise the issue of Eritrea’s membership of the UN Human Rights Council. We understand that the Eritrean government has submitted an application to be re-elected as…

Open Letter to UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Eritrean Refugees from Tigray Camps Scattered and Destitute in Ethiopia

By HRCE
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March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Rue de Montbrillant, Geneva 1202, Switzerland Cc: Ann Encontre, Representative, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Via email 3rd March 2021 Dear Mr. Grandi, Eritrean Refugees from Tigray Camps Scattered and Destitute in Ethiopia…

Brutal Militias Attacked Refugees in Mai Ayni Camp in Tigray

By HRCE
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March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

On 27th February, armed men entered Mai Aini refugee camp and terrorised the inhabitants all night. At about 1:20a.m. on 27th February 2021, armed men entered in Mai Aini refugee camp in Tigray and terrorised the refugees with gunshots. The militia harassed, attacked, robbed, and injured…

The Hidden Truth of Ethiopia’s plan “to Close Two Refugee Camps in Tigray”

By HRCE
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February 10, 2021February 10, 2021

The State of Ethiopia has announced that it “plans to close two camps” in the north of province of Tigray, the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps. These camps housed more than 20,000 refugees, nearly all of them from Eritrea. The Head of the Ethiopian Agency for…

HRCE Calls for All Eritrean Military Forces to Leave Tigray Immediately

By HRCE
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February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

Ethiopian and Eritrean officials have repeatedly denied that Eritrean forces are operating in Tigray. However, these denials are contradicted by eyewitness accounts. So conspicuous are the Eritrean military in Tigray that Eritrean soldiers have even attended meetings in which humanitarian workers negotiated access to Tigray with…

Eritrean Refugees from Two Camps Deported at Gunpoint by Eritrean Soldiers to the Country They Fled From; Unarmed civilians and Refugees Shot Dead

By HRCE
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January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

The Ethiopian government claims the conflict in Tigray has ended. This is very far from the truth. Violence and war crimes against helpless Eritrean refugees continue on a massive scale. And the perpetrators have been clearly identified as Eritrean military personnel, who do not have the…

Eritrean Refugees Left to Starve for Five weeks in Tigray Camp

By HRCE
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December 31, 2020December 31, 2020

Eritrean Refugees in Hitsats Camp in Tigray have not received any food at all since the end of November 2020, because of the war in Tigray. Many were forcibly returned to Eritrea by Eritrean military forces. The remaining refugees are desperate for food, and there is a…

Eritrea: State-Imposed Starvation Stalks a Land Impoverished by Military Aggression

By HRCE
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December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

Locked-Down Eritrean Population Facing Appalling Food Shortages Nearly 80 percent of the Eritrean population lives in the rural areas and depends on subsistent agriculture and nomadic pastoralism. Nearly 80 percent of the Eritrean population lives in the rural areas and depends on subsistent agriculture and nomadic pastoralism. …

A call to stop the killings and looting in Tigray by Eritrean Forces

By HRCE
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December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

Gradually, as the two-month-old war in Ethiopia unfolded, the evidence of the involvement of Eritrean Forces in the Tigray conflict has mounted. Despite attempts by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Government to restrict access to the war zone, news has filtered out. On Sunday, 20 December 2020…

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