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A UN expert on Friday warned that the human rights landscape in Eritrea is continuing to deteriorate, as concerns grow regarding the ongoing use of enforced disappearances, indefinite military conscription, torture, and the government’s refusal to cooperate with international organizations to address these issues. In outlining the gravity of the human rights issues in the [...]

Ethiopia’s federal government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that troops from neighboring Eritrea took part in the war in the Tigray region, which formally ended in 2022. The government said Eritrean forces were responsible for mass killings, destroying homes, and looting factories. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s acknowledgment marks a major change [...]

A UN expert urged states to recognize hostage-taking as a crime against humanity on Thursday. The statement comes as a preparatory committee is drafting a treaty on crimes against humanity. The Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, called on states participating in the negotiations to include hostage-taking as a crime against humanity in the [...]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release on Monday calling for the release of thousands of people arbitrarily detained in Eritrea. The release states there are believed to be over 10,000 people arbitrarily detained in Eritrea, including politicians, journalists, clergy and students. The OHCHR acknowledged the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday urged Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Huynh Ngoc Tuan. Tuan was arrested at his home in Buon Ho town and charged with “propagandizing against the state,” which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative Shawn Crispin [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday implementing a nearly full travel ban on nationals from a dozen countries, severely restricting potential entry into the United States. The proclamation is based on an executive order issued on Trump’s first day in office that laid the foundation for the administration to enact extensive immigration controls. [...]

Amnesty International urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday to condemn the forced return of Eritrean refugees to their home country. The statement came amid the 58th session of the human rights council that focused on the human rights situation in Eritrea. Amnesty International emphasized the dire human rights conditions faced by Eritrean [...]

Libya’s Criminal Investigation Agency announced the rescue of over two hundred illegal immigrants in Al-Wahat district from a gang that tortured, abused and mistreated them on Friday. The rescued came from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, and were subject to horrific conditions, malnutrition, and sexual violence. According to the agency, twenty-five of the [...]

Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Morgan on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Canadian company Barrick Gold of committing human rights abuses against Tanzanian mine workers. Justice Morgan granted Barrick Gold’s application for forum non conveniens (inconvenient forum), agreeing that Tanzanian courts would be better suited to handle the case. The justice rejected the plaintiff’s submission that [...]

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published in June an extensive report concluding that there is strong evidence to suggest that all sides of the 2020-2022 Tigray war committed war crimes – and that Ethiopian and allied forces committed crimes against humanity and acts of genocide against the Tigrayan people. The 80,000 word [...]