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Britain, EU and World Bank to Create 100,000 Jobs in Ethiopia to Help Refugees September 21, 2016 News, Politics 1 Comment Britain, the European Union and the World Bank have announced a plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia to help tackle the migrant crisis. Two industrial parks will be built in the country at […]

Martin Plaut / 8 hours ago Israel’s treatment of Eritrean refugees – or ‘infiltrators’ as the authorities term them – is a scandal. Almost none are given asylum, as I have documented previously. Now evidence has come to light of an even more worrying trend. Eritreans are being sent to Uganda, with the promise that […]

(ANSAmed) – TEL AVIV, SEPTEMBER 27 – Israel has expelled 20,000 of 60,000 illegal migrants that have entered the country, the newspaper Israel Hayom reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying during a meeting of supporters of his Likud party in Tel Aviv. According to the report, Netanyahu said that another 20,000 would soon be […]

GENEVA (16 September 2016) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today called on the Eritrean Government to urgently provide information on the whereabouts and state of health of senior government officials and independent journalists arrested on 18 September 2001 and in the following days. Fifteen […]

Comboni Mission page 6 Winter 2013 Handing over of petition to Frank Field MP Comboni Mission page 7 Winter 2013

UN report accuses government of extrajudicial executions, torture, national service and forced labour that create a climate of repression driving many to flee   readmore

8 June 2016 – Officials in Eritrea have committed crimes against humanity, including enslavement, rape and torture, across the country over the past 25 years, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. The report found that the crimes were committed “in a widespread […]

A/HRC/32/CRP.1 I Introduction   The Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea was initially established for a period of one year by the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 26/24. In that resolution, the Council mandated the Commission to investigate all alleged violations of human rights in Eritrea, as outlined in the reports […]