Mekelle, Tigray – Over 1500 ethnic Tigrayans have been expelled from the occupied Western Tigray zone by Amhara regional forces and militias this year alone, compounding what rights groups describe as an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing nearly three years Read More …
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War’s devastation leaves Tigray’s textile industry struggling to recover
The once-thriving textile and garment sector in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which served as a major economic backbone, has been severely devastated by the conflict in northern Ethiopia over the past two years. While the physical destruction and supply chain disruptions Read More …
Losing a Generation: Tigray Faces Deepening Crisis amid Displacement, Trafficking, and Political Turmoil
NewsLosing a Generation: Tigray Faces Deepening Crisis amid Displacement, Trafficking, and Political… Across the small towns of villages of rural Tigray, displacement and illegal migration have become a grim reality for thousands of young people who see no future for Read More …
Living in Limbo: Tigray’s Displaced Left without Protection or Path to Return
Nearly five years after war uprooted them, hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans remain in makeshift camps, living under precarious conditions that blur the line between survival and slow erasure, a recent report discloses. A new special assessment report titled The Plight Read More …
A Toolkit for Experienced Documenters Seeking Accountability
This toolkit aims to provide, in as concise a manner as possible, guidelines and best practices for collecting, managing, and reporting information on serious human rights situations in armed conflict. The guide is aimed at fairly experienced civil society actors Read More …
Tigray can’t afford anotherwar, and the world can’tafford to do nothing
Despite the war in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia ending in November 2022, tensions are again escalating. Locals are braced for the possibility of another outbreak of violence. The two-year Tigray war was sharp and deadly, with up to Read More …
Opinion: Why war in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea is unlikely – for now
PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki exchanging pleasantries with Debretsion Gebremichael, then deputy president of Tigray regional state during the reopening of Bure and Zalambesa border crossings in September 2018 (Photo: Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia) Addis Read More …
Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report
A rape survivor breaks down in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, 21 October 2024. Many rape victims were left with long-term injuries. Photograph: Fred Harter/AP Hundreds of health workers across Tigray have documented mass rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and Read More …
UPR Submission Details Deliberate Destruction, Systematic Sabotage in Tigray
A Universal Periodic Review (UPR) filed with the UN Human Rights Council presents harrowing evidence of systemic economic destruction and infrastructure sabotage during the Tigray conflict and accuses Ethiopian, Amhara, and Eritrean forces of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and Read More …
In Tigray, eventhe womb is not safe
In the Ethiopian region of Tigray, it has now officially been two and a half years of peace, but many women literally carry the pain of the war within them. They were victims of horrific sexual violence by Ethiopian and Read More …