On 2nd October 2019, the Ugandan newspaper “Daily Monitor” reported that five (later corrected to four) players from Eritrea’s Under-20 football team had disappeared from their hotel in Jinja, whilst preparing to play in the CECAFA Challenge Cup. They were later reported to have applied for asylum in Uganda.…
Update (October 2, 2019): Five Players of Eritrea’s National Under-20 (U-20) football team have disappeared from their hotel in Jinja, Uganda ahead of the semi-finals of the on-going Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) U-20 Challenge Cup. CECAFA U-20 Challenge Cup is set to…
Despite Eritrean government’s egregious human rights violations, Eritrea is a member of the Human Rights Council and still has not allowed the new Special Rapporteur, Ms. Daniela Kravetz, to visit the country. The Eritrean government flouts the very purposes for which the UN Human Rights Council was…
Mr Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino Director General International Organisation for Migration (IOM) 17 Route de Marillons PO Box 17 CH 1211 Geneva Switzerland Dear Mr. Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Vitorino, Re: Repatriation of Eritrean Refugees from Libya Human Rights Concern Eritrea request that the International…
