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Human rights in Eritrea

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A man in a suit stands in a side gallery overlooking the The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the United Nations complex in Geneva, where people are seated on the floor of the hall beneath the brightly colored painted and sculpted ceiling. — (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

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Eritrea: Human Rights Council Must Vote to Extend Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

June 25, 2025

Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images

Report

Eritrean Troops’ Massacre of Hundreds of Axum Civilians May Amount to Crime Against Humanity

February 25, 2021 | armed groups

Congolese firemen begin the disinfecting operation of the state buildings and public spaces in the Gombe district of Kinshasa, on April 12, 2020. – The operations will last for ten days to try to curb the spreading of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by JUNIOR KANNAH / AFP) (Photo by JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images)

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Protect Detainees at Risk of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Unclog Prisons and Release Prisoners of Conscience

April 20, 2020 | at-risk detainees

Ciham has been in detention in Eritrea since she was 15 years old after being arrested attempting to cross from Eritrea into Sudan

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Eritrea: Visiting US envoy must demand action on deplorable record of arbitrary detentions

November 30, 2018 | Africa

African migrants demonstrate in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2018, against the Israeli government’s policy to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers. Only days before, a solution had been announced that would regularise the situation for many migrants and end the potential forced deportation of thousands of others. But in a stunning turnaround on April 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled the agreement with the UN refugee agency, bowing to pressure from his right-wing base to scrap the deal. / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israel: African asylum-seeker deportations and “voluntary” transfers are forced and illegal

June 17, 2018 | asylum seekers

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Amnesty International’s Annual State of the World Report Slams Governments, Including the U.S., for Global Assault on Freedoms

February 22, 2016 | Child Marriage

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Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016

February 18, 2016 | Annual Report

Press Release

Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International

February 18, 2016 | Child Marriage

Press Release

Eritrea: Refugees fleeing indefinite conscription must be given safe haven

December 1, 2015

Report

State of the World 2014/2015

February 25, 2015

Report

Annual Report: Eritrea 2013

May 20, 2013

Press Release

Map of Secret Prison Network in Eritrea Pinpoints “Infrastructure of Repression”

May 8, 2013 | Fair Trials