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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 […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of faithful gather each week in the makeshift Savior of the World church. With its walls bedecked with Christian paraphernalia, it’s an unlikely scene in the heart of the Jewish state, hidden in a non-descript building in a hardscrabble area of coastal metropolis Tel Aviv. readmore

Horror stories of human trafficking, torture, and slavery of Africans by Muslims in Sinai “By that time I had lost sensation in both my hands,” an Eritrean torture victim told CBN News. “It was a result of the accumulated torture but mainly because (both) of my wrists were tied up so tightly, (and I was) […]

    Women raped by Sinai traffickers find help By Frederik Pleitgen and Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, CNN The Sinai desert is a hub for people trafficking. Many of the refugees from sub-Saharan Africa who get smuggled through here get tortured and blackmailed in the process. Bedouin gangs – instead of trafficking the refugees straight into […]

Helping African victims of human trafficking in Israel   In recent years, some 50,000 Africans have crossed into Israel from Sinai, creating a refugee problem that Israeli authorities have struggled to solve. Most are from war-torn Eritrea. Many Israelis consider them “infiltrators” just looking for jobs and want them deported. But to hear the tragic […]

Migrant boat sinks off Sicily, at least 319 people drowned Siculiana : Italy | Oct 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM PDT By SRHS143 4 0 Views: 426 1 of 22 An African migrant and her son watch a memorial service for the deaths of hundreds of migrants in last week’s Lampedusa boat disaster, in Tel […]

Lampedusa migrant boat disaster: 35-year-old Tunisian who was the captain and suspected of starting the fatal fire on vessel that caused shipwreck is arrested by Italian Police. Media source: Migrant Boat caught fire near the Italian Island of Lampedusa Italian police have arrested a Tunisian man they believe is responsible for last week’s migrant disaster […]

  By Activestills[source http://972mag.com/asylum-seekers-hold-silent-march-on-streets-of-tel-aviv/84586/ |Published December 28, 2013   Photos by Activestills, text by Haggai Matar African refugees and Israeli activists protest Israel’s immigration policies, calling for the release of all refugees imprisoned under the Prevention of Infiltration Law, and the recognition of their rights as refugees, December 28, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) Over 6,000 African […]