One year after the international community shut down a United Nations monitoring mechanism, health workers in Ethiopia say the crisis in their country is far from over.
Since the conflict in Ethiopia began in 2020, the Tigray region has seen horrific atrocities committed against civilians. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and others have documented egregious human rights violations, including attacks on health care and conflict-related sexual violence – abuses that did not stop even after the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) was signed in November 2022. In response to atrocities occurring largely in Tigray, the UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC) created the Independent Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) in 2021. Read more