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ICERAS focuses on facilitating asylum seekers and refugees internationally
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery
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 […]
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Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
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 […]
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‘I was tied in the helicopter position and tortured’
Sunday, June 22, 2008, 09:53 by Ariadne Massa ‘I was tied in the helicopter position and tortured’ Million Mesfin Berhe. A deformed bone and punctured flesh, inflicted during his time in prison. Photos: Chris Sant Fournier. Imprisoned for practising his Christian faith, Eritrean national Million Mesfin Berhe was beaten and tortured for 14 months before […]
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Israeli Minister Eli wants to sent back Illegal Eritrean Migrants to homeland
Eritrean News: No reason Eritrean illegal immigrants can’t be sent back. Former Minster Eli Yishai says that the time has come for Israel to return illegal migrants from Eritrea to their homeland. ኢስራኤላዊ ሚንስተር ኤሊ ይሻይ ንኤርትራ ናብ ዓዶም ክመልሶም ይደሊ ኣሎ። Former Minster Eli Yishai, the head of the Yachad political party, said that […]
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Recent Activities of the Plight of Eritrean Refugee
Recent Activities of the Plight of Eritrean Refugee By: Tigist Abebe & Simon Gebreselassie A mathematics lecturer, the Capuchin priest of Eritrean nationality, Father Vittorio Boria, The Plight of Eritrean Refugee Committee at St. Nicholas church was created to help address the issues that Eritrean refugees face once they leave Eritrea. The Committee was created […]
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Eritrean refugees in Israel sent to Uganda and Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda – The sky was still an inky black when the flight from Cairo touched down at Entebbe Airport near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, one morning in mid-January, the fluorescent glow spilling from the small terminal providing the only source of light. It had been 15 hours since Musgun Gebar left Tel Aviv, […]
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Home Office Policy Towards Eritrean Asylum Seekers – Solution or Confusion?
By Tesfahannes Beyene, Britain’s policy towards Eritrean asylum seekers and Economic migrants is confused to say the least. The answer is simple; there is no any coherent policy towards Eritreans as many of those who claim to be Eritreans are in fact Ethiopians. The strange thing is that Britain’s Home Office (the office of domestic […]
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Deported to persecution: The Home Office’s Eritrean programme
By Philip Kleinfeld Monday, 11 April 2016 It was roughly twelve months after 31-year-old Gebre Berhane (not his real name) escaped Eritrea that the letter came through from the Home Office. He’d already lost 13 years of his life to forced military service and faced the threat of a regime which he says kidnapped his father turning on him. […]
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Judges deem Eritrea unsafe for migrants’ return as Home Office advice rebutted
The Home Office will alter its much-criticised policy on Eritrean asylum seekers, after a legal ruling found that the majority of those fleeing the country risk persecution or serious harm on returning. The ruling, which could affect thousands of Eritreans, one of the largest groups to seek asylum in Britain every year, contradicts the government’s […]
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Hundreds of Eritreans’ asylum applications still ‘incorrectly refused’
Hundreds of asylum applications from Eritreans are being incorrectly refused by the government owing to its “unacceptable” policy on accepting refugees from the country, MPs have said. The home affairs select committee has called on the Home Office to explain why it still has not updated its guidance on asylum seekers from Eritrea, even though […]
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