“Without concerted citizen action… these rights have little meaning anywhere” (Eleanor Roosevelt) 73 years ago, on December 10th 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations as the common standard for all nations. It set out, for the first time,…

A group of 18 Eritrean refugees, who have been arbitrarily detained in Egypt, are in grave danger of deportation, and there are plans to remove eight members of the group on Saturday, 23rd October 2021, to the very country they fled from. In October 2019, a…

An estimated 42,210 refugees and asylum-seekers are presently in Libya, of whom at least 5,000 (12%) are from Eritrea (UNHCR: Sept 2021). All of them now feel in grave danger, after over 5,000 of many nationalities were detained in less than a week in Tripoli.  The…

Wednesday, 6 October, 2021, was the 30th anniversary of the detention in Eritrea of Bitweded Abraha, pronounced to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.  Bitweded was one of the outstanding figures of Eritrea’s Liberation Struggle in the years from 1973 onwards. In…

On July 30th 2021, Ethiopia suspended the operations within its territory of two International Aid Groups, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Doctors Without Borders.  This startling intervention by Ethiopia’s government comes at a time when reliable international experts predict that hundreds of thousands of civilians in Tigray…