HRCE’s Statement on the African Asylum Seekers in Israel

Human Rights Concern – Eritrea, condemns the brutal handling of the African asylum-seekers by the Israel Police on Sunday 29 June 2014. On Friday 27 June, the asylum seekers walked out of Holot detention center in protest of their illegal detention and headed towards the Egyptian…

Letter to the President of the Federal States of Somalia

The letter below to the Somalian President was written in June 2013. Following last week’s adoption of a resolution to establish a Commission of Inquiry, to investigate the human rights violations by the government of Eritrea since the independence. I have decided to repost it.

Eritrea: HRC Must Establish a Commission of Inquiry

25 June 2014 We the undersigned are writing to call on the UN’s Human Rights Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry on the human rights situation in Eritrea given the ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations being committed by the government of Eritrea against…

The slaves of Eritrea

(Canadian Business, May 9, 2014  by Matthew McClearn) The news was grim, but not surprising. Yannick Lamonde, an official within Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), received word in January last year of an impending report by a prominent non-governmental organization. Its contents were…

A National Team Without a Country

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By JAMES MONTAGUE May 21, 2014   GORINCHEM, the Netherlands — The 18 Eritrean refugees arrived in this picturesque, blue-collar Dutch city 20 miles east of Rotterdam earlier this month looking for safety, security and, finally, after 18 months of fear and uncertainty in two refugee camps on…