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Speech by Elsa Chyrum at Dr Martin Luther King’s Birthday Celebration

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Dear brothers and sisters, We have come here today to celebrate and remember the life of a fine Minster, a leader in America’s civil rights movement, a symbol of protest for racial justice, a husband, a father and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Martin Luther…

Eritrea: Mining Investors Risk Use of Forced Labor

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(Toronto) – International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea’s burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. The failure of the Vancouver-based company Nevsun Resources to ensure that forced labor would not be used during construction of its Eritrea…

Elizabeth (Elsa) Chyrum: A woman of the year 2012

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We, at asmarino.com, would like to emphasize what a difference Elsa Chyrum has made this yea as a Human Rights Activist, to the cause of Eritrea’s human rights situation. Elsa has done a lot in helping refugees stranded in nowhere; in highlighting the lawlessness of the…

Eritrean Refugees Risk Death to Escape Tyranny

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Eritrean Refugees Risk Death to Escape Tyranny The Eritrean Community Center (ECC) will host two internationally known human right activists for a special program on the exploding refugee crisis in the northeast African country of Eritrea at the Eritrean Community Center, 590 Shawmut Ave., Boston on…

Eritrean Website Honours An Eritrean Human Rights Activist

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Elsa Chyrum, Director of Human Rights Concern- Eritrea, and a prominent human rights activist and advocate for Eritrean refugees all over the world, has been chosen as Woman of the Year 2012 by one of the main Eritrean websites, asmarino.com. The website notes that she has done much to…

Human Rights Activists to Speak at Eritrean Community Center

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The Eritrean Community Center, which was founded in 2000 with help from Milton resident and teacher Ruth Worrede, will host two internationally-known human rights activists on Saturday, January 19. The free event at the community center, 590 Shawmut Ave., Roxbury, will begin at 4 p.m. and…

Eritrean Refugees and POWs in Djibouti

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Elizabeth Chyrum, on behalf of Human Rights Concern Eritrea, visited Djibouti between 8th and 12th October 2012. While there, on 11th October, she was able to visit Eritrean detainees, refugees and prisoners of war with the assistance of Mr Ibrahim Rayaleh, Secretaire Executive of  ONARS, a…

PERSEVERANCE, NOT PROPAGANDA

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First of all, let me say how overjoyed I am by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s decision at the Twentieth Session on July 6th to adopt the resolution A/HRC/20/L.19, which, amongst other things, provides for the establishment of a Special Rapporteur to Eritrea for the…

His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III

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His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III Pope of Alexandria Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012I would like to openly express my deep gratitude for the memory of His Holiness whose existence served as an example of just…