Over the last two years, the Ethiopian government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has implemented a de-facto blockade of the Tigray region, preventing millions of Tigray residents from accessing critical life-saving medical and food supplies, and consigning millions to famine-like conditions. For the past year, the…
CSW and Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) are concerned at the misreporting of events surrounding a counter protest by Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers against a pro-government gathering outside the Eritrean Embassy in London which was forcefully dispersed by police on 4 September. Those dispersed and…
Britain’s new policy proposal to send asylum seekers who have not arrived by legal routes to Rwanda in East Africa is unethical and probably illegal under international humanitarian law. Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel recently signed a deal to remove to Rwanda asylum-seekers arriving in Britain…
Eritrean refugees in Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia, are dying from hunger and hunger-related diseases. No food rations have been allowed to reach them for over two months. People are dying from starvation, and children particularly are dying from malnutrition-related illnesses. They…
News from Eritrean Refugees in Sudan indicates an organized campaign by local security personnel to arrest, imprison, and extract money from desperate and impoverished Eritrean refugees. Evidence is continuing to be received that, since mid-February 2022, police and soldiers have been rounding up Eritrean refugees in…
The United Nations Refugee Agency says thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s embattled northern Tigray Region are living under life-threatening conditions because they have no access to humanitarian aid, notably food and water, but also medical supplies. More than 25,000 refugees live in Mai Aini and Adi…
