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By Simon Allison on August 4, 2014 — Many Eritreans have fled their country, and more seek to do the same every day. But leaving is fraught with danger, as would-be migrants are increasingly being hijacked by human trafficking rings, some of whom kidnap the migrants and sell them on. Or do worse. Eritreans fleeing the […]

Trafficking and torturing Eritrean refugees source http://www.redressonline.com/2014/05/trafficking-and-torturing-eritrean-refugees/ 19th May 2014   Highlights, Other World By Graham Peebles Life in Eritrea is brutal and shrouded in secrecy. The world is indifferent. The regime trusts nobody – even the United Nation’s special rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila Keetharuth, has been denied a visa. Poverty, repression and injustice Last […]

A 22-year-old Eritrean woman told Amnesty International that she witnessed other women being sexually abused, including one who was gang-raped because the smuggler wrongly accused her of failing to pay his fee. “Her family couldn’t pay the money again. They took her away and she was raped by five Libyan men. They took her out […]

Eritrea is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. In connection with a national service program in which men aged 18 to 54 and women aged 18 to 47 provide military and non-military service, there have been repeated reports that some Eritreans in […]

Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report Report ERITREA: Tier 3 Eritrea is a source country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor. To a lesser extent, Eritrean adults and children are subjected to sex and labor trafficking abroad. The government continues to be complicit in trafficking […]